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PREFACE 

THIS volume contains the proceedings of a 
Board of General Officers of the British 
Army at New York, appointed by Sir Henry 
Clinton, August 7, 1781, to consider the expendi- 
ture of public money in the different departments 
established by him when he succeeded to the 
command of the British Army at New York. 

The volume is of great local interest, and has 
among other items a return of men, women and 
children in the British Regiments victualled in 
New York, in the Civil Department and in For- 
eign Regiments, with Muster Roll of Assistants, 
Overseers, Coopers, Laborers, Artificers in various 
departments and where employed, and covers 
Brooklyn and this city; also list of vessels, giving 
names of masters, and a comparative view of the 
expenses in different departments of the Army 
from December 17, 1775, to December 5, 1781, 
under Sir WiUiam Howe and Sir Henry Clinton. 

The original manuscript volume is in the 
Archives of the Society. 



Out. HajJ,, ■ T5.C n u'x/i 6 

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PROCEEDINGS OF A 

BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

OF THE 

BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



§ 



New York 19th July, 1781 

Major Drummond 

to His Excelly Sir Henry Clinton 

Sir: 

From the small investigation I have as yet been able to 
make into the Accounts and Expenditures in one or two De- 
partments of this Army, there appears to me no other certain 
method of diminishing the very heavy Expences attending on 
them but that of immediately taking the Vessels, Batteaux and 
small Craft with the Horses and Waggons out of the hands of 
Departments and place them in those of Government, by which 
means the immense charge incurred at present for the hire of 
Vessels, Waggons and Horse Train will be in a great measure 
saved, as in that case Government cannot suffer any other charge 
but simply those for the pay of Drivers, and the hire of proper 
persons for the management of the Vessels, with some necessary 
Contingent Expences to replace such Horses as may die or be 
rendered unfit for service, to repair Waggons, and to refit the 
Vessels, &c. 

Government I apprehend from this mode will be eased of 
very considerable Expences. For not withstanding the present 
heavy charges incurred for the current Services of the various 
Departments, Government must still be considered as answer- 
able for and at the risk of all losses under every head and of 
every kind. 

I believe upon Calculation it will be found that all the 
Horses, Waggons, Vessels, &c which may be found necessary 
to be employed for the use of the Army under Your Excellency's 
Command, might be purchased considerably within one Year's 
hire of the present cost and Establishment. 

I am extremely sensible that many objections will be thrown 
in the way to bar any proposal of this kind, setting forth the 
improbability that such a Scheme will ever answer should it be 
put into execution; I foresee that many obstacles may be 
framed to counteract such a design, but I have to assure Your 
Excellency, upon mature deliberation, that a plan might be 



2 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

adopted in this respect, which I am persuaded would fully 
answer the purpose of reducing the present enormous charges; 
I may possibly be too sanguine, but I confess the feasibility of 
what I propose strikes me in the most sensible manner. 

I should humbly propose that a Board of General Officers 
might assemble to enquire whether this proposal is practicable 
and should it appear to them that it would answer the end which 
I know Your Excellency has ever had so much at heart, that of 
diminishing the enormous expence of the Army, I should humbly 
propose that a Comptroller with two or three Officers of Rank 
should have the entire management of all those matters, under 
the stile or form of a Board of Works or whatever denomination 
may be thought most proper. 

I have taken the liberty of submitting the above observations 
to your Excellency's perusal; the motives that have actuated 
me upon this occasion are solely the publick good, and in 
consequence of the very urgent orders that have been trans- 
mitted to me from the Right Honorable the Lords Commis- 
sioners of His Majesty's Treasury through Mr. Robinson their 
Secretary, which specify in so particular and forcible a manner, 
their confidence and trust that I would give Your Excellency 
every information in my power; and that I should follow all 
such Rules and directions as I might receive from Your Excel- 
lency from time to time; and that with the assistance of Your 
Excellency I should use every means in my power to curtail all 
improper charges to prevent unnecessary expences, and to see 
that the respective Services are carried on with due & proper 
Oeconomy. 

I have the honor to be with the utmost respect 

Your Excellency's most faithful & obedient H^^^ Serv* 

Dun*' Drummond. 



Head Quarters New York 7*^ Aug^ 1781. 

Sir: 

I am directed by the Commander in Chief to lay before Your 
Excellency the enclosed paper and to request you will have the 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 3 

goodness to let me know at what time and place the General 
Officers &e shall attend you. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 

Ol De Lancet 
Adjt Gen' 
Lieut. Gen' Robertson. 

His Excellency the Commander In Chief is pleased to direct 
that a Board, to be composed of the following General Officers 
&c &c or as many of them as can conveniently attend. 
His Excellency Lieut. General Robertson President 
Lieut. General Campbell 
Major General Paterson 
Brig"" Gen' The Earl of Lincoln 
Brig'' General Birch 
The Hon^'^ Andrew EHiott and 
The Hon'''^ Henry White Esq" 
do assemble at on and receive such 

information as Major Drummond Commissary of Accounts 
shall lay before them, touching the Expenditure of Publick 
Money in the different Departments, which the Commander 
in Chief found established in this Army, upon his succeeding 
to the Command of it. And His Excellency requests, that 
after the Board have duly Considered the same they will be 
pleased to report to him, in writing their opinion thereon. 

Proceedings of a Board of General Officers Summoned by 

Order of His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton Commander in 

Chief &c &c 

At New York 10th August 1781, Viz*: 

Present His Excellency Lieut Gen' James Robertson, President 

Lieutenant General Campbell 

Major General Paterson 

The Honb'« Andrew EUiot , ^^ sr 

Esq'' 



The Hon'''* Henry White 
His Excellency General Robertson having read Sir Henry 
Clinton's Letter of 7*'' August, 1781 and Major Drummond 
having laid before them sundry Papers, agreed on writing the 
following Letter or Report to His Excellency the Commander 
in Chief Viz*: 



4 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

New York 10th August 1781. 
Sir: 

We have the honor to inform Your Excellency from the 
cursory view which we have taken of the papers laid before us 
by Major Drummond, it appears proper that an exact Muster 
be immediately taken of all persons employed in the Vessels 
and Boats belonging to the different Departments in Govern- 
ment pay, and that a Survey be taken of those Vessels. 

That a Muster be hkewise taken of all the Conductors, 
Waggoners, Labourers and Artificers belonging to the different 
Departments and a Survey to be made of the Waggons charged 
to Government, and the state of them. 

The Commissary General to give in a Return of the Rations 
drawn for the above people, their Wives and Children. 

I have the honor to be in the name of the Board, 
Sir, &c &c 

James Robertson 

His Excell^ Sir Henry Clinton 
Commander in Chief, &c &c &c 

The Board adjourned till Tuesday. 



Tuesday August 14th, 1781 
The Board met at General Robertson's agreeable to their 
Adjournment last Friday. 

Present His Excellency Lieut. General Robertson 
Lieutenant General Campbell 
Major General Paterson 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Hon*''^ Andrew EUiotl 3^ 

The Honbi« Henry White j ^ 

His Excellency General Robertson read the Commander in 
Chief's Answer to the Report of the 10th instant as follows: 

Head Quarters August 10th, 1781 
Sir: 

I am honored with Your Excellency's letter of this date, 
and in answer to it I am to request that the Board will be 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 5 

pleased to do every thing they judge requisite, and issue to the 
different Department what directions they think necessary to 
come at every information they may require in the course of 
their Proceedings; and the Department shall have my Orders 
to pay every requisite obedience thereto a Copy of which is 
inclosed. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 



H. Clinton 



His Excellency 
Lieut Gen^ Robertson. 



The following is a Copy of the letter alluded to in the pre- 
ceding which the Commander in Chief ordered to be wrote to 
the Heads of the different Departments Viz*: 

Head Quarters New York 10th August 1781 
Gentlemen : 

The Commander in Chief has thought proper to appoint a 
Board of General Officers &c of which His Excellency Lieu- 
tenant General Robertson is President, to receive from Major 
Drummond Commissary of Accounts such information as he 
may think most proper to give them, relative to the expendature 
of Pubhck Money by the different Departments, and as it may 
be necessary for the Board in the Course of their Proceedings 
to give directions, and to call upon the Principals of the several 
Departments for information in order to facihtate the Business 
they are sitting on, it is the Commander in Chief's desire that 
the Departments will be pleased to pay every requisite attention 
to such orders as the Board may think proper to give for this 
purpose. 

By order of His Excellency 

John Smith 

Secty 

To the Principal Officers of the 
Several Departments of the Army. 



6 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Upon a Review of the Papers laid before us by Major 
No 1 Comparative View of Expences in different Depart- 

SiR William Howe 
Barrack Master's Department 

1775 Dec 31st 1 

to > Paid Brigad Gen' James Robertson 

June 30th 1776J 

1777 Mar 29 ] 

to >■ Paid George Clarke Esq 

June 6th 1777] 

1778 [10 I Paid George Clarke Esq 40061- 6-7 

May \ 14 > Captain Paine 16060- 6-0 

15 H.Robinson 1855-0-6 



For 2 Years and 5 Months 

Commissary General of Stores and Provisions 

1775 

Dec 31 Paid Daniel Chamier Esq 

1776 

June 4 Paid Ditto 

1777 /29 

March \30 Paid Ditto 



1778 

April 25 Paid Daniel Weir Esq 50805- 9-6 

May 5 " Do 9245- 6-8 

« 12 Do Do 85943-17-834 



For two years and 5 months . 



Quarter Master General's Department 

1775 Dec 13thl 

to [ Paid Colonel Sheriff at Sundry times. 

1776 Dec 31 
March 31st 

to !► Paid Colonel Sheriff & Sir Wm Erskine. 

Dec 31st 1777 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 7 

Drummond they are as follows: 

ments from 31st December 1775 to 31st December 1780 



24796- 3-6K 



21087- 7-9 



57976-13-1 



103860- 4-4M 



2228- 1-3M 
10317-12-3% 
71764- 3-6 



145994-13-lOM 



230304-10-11 



161040-19-7 



217645- 1-23^ 



8 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Jan 14th to 1 p^.^ g.^ ^^ Erskine & Colonel 

May 14 1778 J 

Two Years and five Months 



Engineer's Department 
1775 Dec 31 1 

to [ Paid Capt Montrezor & Capt Dixon. 

Dec 31 1776 

i^"" !f,* !^,, ^ Paid Ditto Ditto 

Dec 31 1777 

1778 May 12 

14 }■ Paid Capt Montrezor. 



16 



Two Years and five Months, 



Sir Henry Clinton 

Barrack Master's Department 

1778 May 26 \ ^ . , ^ , ^, , 
. T^ o"^ ^ Paid Colo. Clarke, 

to Dec 31 



Paid Ditto 



1779 Jan 1 
to Dec 31 

1780 Jan 1 \ Paid Colo. Clarke 89569- 5-9}^ 

to Dec 31 J Paid Major Crosbie 75000 



For Two Years and 7 Months . 



Commissary General of Stores and Provisions 

1778 May 25thl Paid Daniel Weir Esq at New York. 

to Decem 30 J Do for Rhode Island & HaUfax. . . . 



1779 Jan 1st j p^.^ ^^^^.^^ ^^.^ ^ ^^ j^^^ York. 

to Dec 31 J 

Rhode Island 

Halifax 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 9 



127212-11-0 



52387-19-OH 
40752-12-53^ 
33577- 1-21^ 



18025- 0-7 
219640-1 1-6M 

164569- 5-9H 



505898-1 1-9M 



126717-12-8^ 



402234-17-llM 



210000 
12000 



360000 
30000 
17521-18-3 



222000- 



407521-18-3 



10 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

1780 Jan 1st 1 Paid Ditto at New York. .. . 480000 
to Dec 31 !► Ditto for So. Carolina.... 95000 
Ditto for Halifax 20200 



Deduct for Rum bought and paid for here, which was not done 
before, suppose 5000 Puncheons a year at a Dollar pr Gallon 
on an average is about 



Deduct further for Provisions bought here and increase of 
Forage suppose 

For 2 Years and 7 Months 

Quarter Master General's Department 
1778 May 26 1 

to y Paid Sir William Erskine 

Dec 31st 1778 I 

Jan 1 to Dec 1 Paid Sir William Erskine 

31st 1779 ( Lord Cathcart 

Jan 1st to Dec I Paid Lord Cathcart 

31st 1780 [ Gen Dalrymple 

J Capt Savage at Rd Island 



For Two Years and Seven Months . 

Engineer's Department 

May 26th to \ Paid Major Montrezor. 

Dec 31st 1778 

1778 Oct 1st 

to I Paid Capt Alex Mercer. 

31st Dec 1779 
Jan 1st to 
Dec 31st 1780 [ Paid Ditto 

Two Years and Seven Months . 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 11 



595200 



1224721-18-3 



240000 



984721-18-3 
100000 



169451-15^ 
156010-15-0 

77928-18-5 

153321-11-5 

51556- 9-3 



884721-18-3 

215482-15-7 
325462-10-4 

282806-19-1 
823752- 5-0 

39228-16-63^ 



48860- 4-3^ 



49813- 3-lM 



98673- 7-5^ 
137902- 4-01^ 



12 



PKOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 2 State of the Difference in Sundry Departments in Sir 
^. TT f Amount of Barr'^ M"" Gen''^ Depart, froml 

bir llenry j^g^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ Decemb^ 1780 

Clmton L, p ^, t.t ^i 

[2 years & 7 Months 

Sir William 1 Amount of Ditto from 1st Jan^y 1776 to] 

Howe J 26th May 1780 2 Years & 5 Months .... 

Amount of Commissi Gen' of Stores & Pro-] 
vis-^^ from 26th May 1778 to 31st Decemb 1780} 
2 Years and 7 Months 

Amount of Ditto from 1st Jan''^ 1776 to] 
26th May 1778 2 Years & 5 Months. . . . 

Amoimt of Quart M'' Gen'^ Depart from] 
26th May 1778 to 31st Dec 1780 2 years &| 
7 Months 

Amount of D° from 1st Jan 1776 to 26thl 
May 1778 2 years & 5 Months 



Deduct }/i to bring Sir Henry Clinton's time and Sir William 
Howe's upon the same footing 



On the above three Departments there is an encrease of 
£847097-2-934 in two Years & seven Months 

Amount of Engineers Department from 26 May 1778 to 3ll 
Dec 1780 2 years & 7 Months 

Amount of Ditto from 1st Jan 1776 to 26th May 1778 2] 
years & 5 Months 

Gross Amount of Warrants as taken from the Secretary's 

From 26th May to 31st Dec 1778 

From 1st Jan to 31st Dec 1779 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 13 

William Howe and Sir Henry Clinton's Command 
402234-17-43^ 



103860- 4:-4}4 



Encrease 
298374-13-7 



884721-18-3 



230304-10-11 



823752- 5-0 



505898-1 1-9% 



654417- 7-4 



317853-13-23^ 
£1270645-I4r-134 
423584r-ll-4 
£847097- 2-93^ 



Office 



137902- 4-03^ 
126717-12-8M 



£580043- 3-8 
1375054-12-lM 



11184-11-33^ 



Seven Months 
Twelve Months 



14 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

From 1st Jan to 31st Dec 1780 

Sir Henry Clinton's time 

From Decemb 1775 to May 1778 

Encrease in 

No 3 Sketch of the Quart"" Masf Generals Departm* at 

Vessel Hire 

34 Sloops Schooners & Brigs q' 3784 Tons being 111 Tons on\ 

an average with Seamen / 

Deduct 3 losses by Capture &c 

14 Small Vessels of about 30 Tons each at 6*^ per Ton withl 
4 men each at 4/ pr day j 

8 Armed Vessels 

4 Dispatch Boats at £50 SterP pr Month 

29 Extra Hands for the Dispatch Boats 

620 Drivers 1973 Horses 617 Waggons 

a Quarter 



N. B. Besides the above there is a charge for hire of 
the Command"^ in Chief as pr Capt Chad's Contingnt Bill 



N. B. 76 Seamen employed in Sundry small Craft, Bat- 
Workmen Viz* Carpenters, Sawyers, Wheelrights, Blacksmiths 
and Labourers 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 

1323331- 9-5^ Twelve Months 



15 



£3278429- 5-3 
1079412- 7-7M 

£2199016-17-7^ 



for 2 Years & 7 Months 
Sir W™ Howe's tinae 

2 Years & 7 Months 



New York for 3 Months from 1st January to 31st March 1781. 



New York Curr'^y 
16729- 2-5 
3978- 5-4 


12750-17-1 


Sterling 
4131-18-0 
600 .. .. 


1911-15-3 
8111-17-0 




522- 




23296- 9-4 
46609-10-0 




69383-19-4 
4 




£279623-17-4 



Twenty Vessels at Staten Island in February by an Order from 

Currency 
654- 0-6 



teaux, Scows and Boats 



5977-14-8 



16 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Chief Waggon Master, Conductors, Clerks, Storekeepers and 
Inspectors of Ferrys 

Different Materials charged for repairing & Building Flat Boats, 
Batteaux, Row Galleys, Armed Brigs & Sloops with fitting 
up Births in Transports &c upon an average about £4000 
per Quarter 



Suppose you keep in Governments hands 34 
Sloops & Schooners q* 3784 Tons at 7 Men 

pr 100 Tons is 265 Men 

8 Armed Vessels at 30 Men each 240 

14 Small Vessels with 4 men each 56 

4 Dispatch Boats 6 Men each 24 



585 



No 4 Account of Charges for Vessels, Carts, Waggons 
1st January to 31st March 1781. 

At Burling Slip paid for hire 17 Sloops & Schoon^ 1258 Tons. . 

N. B. Besides the above 4 Sloops are kept up on Governm* 

Waggon hire paid for 6 Waggons w* 2 Horses & 15 carts w* 

One Horse 

And for Extra Cartage 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 17 



2599-15-8 



4000- 0-0 



£12577-10-4 



at £5 Ster^ per Maiil 
is per Quarter J 
620 Drivers at 1/6 Sterlingl 
pr day is pr Quarter / 



Sterling 
8775- 0-0 

4278- 



A Quarter £13053- 0-0 
is at par 



A Year. 
Ballance in Government's favor — 



Currency 
23205- 6-8 
4 

92821- 6-8 
186802-10-8 

£279623-17-4 



and Labourers hire in the Commisy Gen'^ Department from 



4455-10-8 



Ace' 



1242- 0-0 
307- 9-0 



18 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Forage Office, Cartage, Waggon hire & other Expences 

7 Sloops and Schooners 92 days 

Brewery 2 Carts £108 Extra Cartage £43-8 

Brooklyn Store 1 Cart 90 days at 12/ 

Horse Hire for Cattle Drivers 

Waggon Hire at Haerlem hights 



For a Year 

Clerks, Assistants and Labourers Wages for the same period 
supposed the same as in 1779 



N. B. The Whole Expence of this Department for the above 
Quarter as per Account given in by Commissi General 

If in Government's Hands 

17 Sloops & Schooners q* 1258 Tons at 7 Men 

for 100 Ton is 87 Men 

7 Sloops &c at the Forrage office with 4 Men each 28 

4 Sloops at present kept up on Government 

Account 16 



Men 131 

26 Drivers for the Carts & Waggons at 1/6 Sterling per day 
90 days 

A Quarter 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



19 



3876- 


1-3 






1276- 9-4 






151- 


8-0 






54 








18 








108 




11488- 


-18-3 




5-OM 


4 




£45955- 


-13-0 


11781- 







95643-11-87? 



at £5 Sterling! 
per Month / 



Sterling 
1965- 0-0 

179- 8-0 

Currency 

2144- 8-0 is 3812- 5-4 

4 



A Year. 
Ballance in favor of Government... 



15249- 1-4 
30706-11-8 

£45955-13-0 



20 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No. 5— 

Account of Charges in the Barr'' M"" General's Department 
hire 

Cart hire at Long Island 

Ditto on York Island taking the average of two Quarters 

Ditto in the City 

Hire of 21 Sloops and Schooners taking the Medium of the 
Quarter before & this 

A Quarter 



Wages paid in the above time for Labourers, Carpent. Masons, 
Assistants, Clerks, Attendants at Wood- Yards for Long 
Island, Staten Island & City and Paulus Hook 



N. B. The whole Expence of this Department for the above 

Quarter as per account given in by the Barrack Master General 
including £2500 for House Rent which was not asscertained. 

If in Government's Hands 

21 Sloops and Schooners q* 1825 Tons at 7 Men per 100 Tonl 

is 128 Men at £5 per Month J 

20 Drivers for 20 Waggons which is supposed about the number! 

in use is 20 Men at 1/6 per day for 92 days / 

Sterling 



For a Year 



Ballance in favor of Governm*. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 21 



from 1st Oct to 31st Decemb 1780 for Cart, Waggon & Vessel 

Currency 
439- 4-0 
1083 
2581 

5881-17-0 



9985- 1-0 
4 



A Year 
39940- 4-0 



5998- 7-7 



53020- 0-0 



1920 
138 



per Quarter 



2058 is 



Currency 
3658-13-4 
4 

14633-13^ 
25306-10-8 

£39940- 4-0 



22 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 6— 

Account of Charges in the Engineer's Department for Vessel, 

3 Sloops and 1 Schooner q* 280 Tons at 13/ SterUng per Ton per 

Month 

6 Waggons and 3 Carts 

A Quarter 

equal to 

A Year 

Workmen's Wages for the above period Viz* Carpenters, 
Labourers, Masons, Blacksmiths &c 

N. B. The whole Expence of this Departm* for the above 
Quarter 

4 Sloops and Schooners q* 280 Tons at 7 Men for 100 Tons 21 

Men at £5 Ster^ per month 

9 Drivers for the Carts & Waggons is 9 Men at 1/6 Sterling 
per day 

A Quarter Steriing 



A Year 
Ballance in favor of Government 



OF THE BKTTISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 23 

Cart and Waggon hire from 1st Jan to 31st March 1781 
SterUng 



544-19-6 
267-15-0 



£812-14-6 



Currency 

1444-16-10 
4 





£5779- 7-4 


6465- 1-43^ 


Sterling 


10176-14-8H 


Sterling 


315— 0—0 


Sterling 


62- 2-0 


Currency 
670- 8-0 
4 


377- 2-0 is 




2681-12-0 
3097-15-4 




£5779- 7-4 



24 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 7— 

Amount of Expenditures in different Departments for one 



Vessels 



Quarter Master General's Department from 

1st January to 31st March 1781 

Barrack Master Generals Department from 1st 

October to 31st December 1780 

Commissary General's Department from 1st 

January to 31st March 1781 

Engineer Department from 1st January to 31st 

March 1781 



23296- 9^ 

5881-17-0 

6732- 0-0 

972- 6-8 



£36882-13-0 



No 8.— 

Vessels employed in different Departments: 
1781 



Commissary General's Depart- 
ment 1st January to 31 March 


Tons 


Extra 
Seamen 


Wages per month 


Sloop Brompton 


30 

68K 
65 

75K 

471^ 

52^ 

1091^ 

180H 

30 

1411^ 


20 

8 




Schooner Polly Armed . . . 
" Cato 


£6 


" Brooklyn 

Sloop Howe Arm'd 

" Kent 


£6 


« Swan 




Brig Peter 




" Patsey 




Sloop Recovery 




Ship Charming Sally 





N. B. Besides the above there appears to be 4 or 5 Vessels 
Government 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 25 



Quarter in 1780 and 1781 



Horses and 
Waggons 


Assistants Clerks 
and Workmen 


Provisions Materials 
Fire Wood &c 


TOTAL 

N. Y. Curry 


46609-10-0 


8577-10^ 


22969-15-1 


101453- 4-9 


4103- 4-0 


5998- 7-7 


37036-11-5 


53020- 0-0 


2670- O-O 


11781- 5-0 


74460- fr-8 


95643-11-8 


476- 0-0 


11493- 9-0 


5150- 3-9 


18091-19-5 


53858-14-0 


37850-11-11 


139616-16-11 


268208-15-10 



Commissary General's Depart- 
ment Ist January to 31 March 



Sloop Speedwell. 



Forage Office 

Sloop Chester 

" Deborah 

" Ranger 

" Betsey 

" Thomas 

" Industry 

Schooner Perfect 

in all 19 Vessels 



Tons 



SQVs 



29^ 
64% 

61% 

50 

45^ 

28 

88 



Extra 
Seamen 



Wages per month 



employed for Temporary Periods and 4 Vessels that belong to 



26 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 8 Continued 



Quarter Master General's Depart- 
ment 1st January to 31st 
March 1781 



Schooner Rachael 

Brigantine Peggy 

" Mary Ann... 

Sloop Caeser 

Schooner Christopher 

Sloop Albany 

" Sally 

" Alexander 

" Betsey 

" Kitty 

" Diana 

" Britannia 

" Lucy 

" Barrington 

" Sally 

Brigtine North 

Ship Falmouth a Prison 

Ship 

Sloop Eagle 

" Harlequin 

" Neptune [Armed] . 

" Herculus 

gj-igtine Duncan 

Schooner Friendship .... 

Brigan^ Ranger 

Sloop Gigg 

Bi-igtine Arnold' 

Sloop John 

" Appollo 

" Peggy [Armed] 

Cutter Greyhound [not 

armed] 



Tons 



144 
145 
144 
110 



^4 
111 

126 
130 

45H 

73 

137% 

59 

69M 

601^ 

130 

221 

45% 
40 



129K 
1293^ 
125 
90 
n 



^4 

56 

1263^ 
106% 
114 
102% 

57% 



Extra 
Men 



Extra 

Seamen 

21 



Wages 

pr Mo 

£6 



£6 Sterg 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 27 



Quarter Master General's Depart- 




Extra 




ment From Ist January to 


Tons 






3l8t March 1781 








Ship General Reidesel .... 


150 






Sloop Mary 


122 






" Jupiter 


135 






Brig°® Joseph 


1241^ 






Sloop Nancy 


2dH 


4 


At 4/ Currency 








per day & Rations 


" Byron 


30 


4 


u 


Schooner Poole 


30 


4 


(i 


Sloop Diligence 


30 


4 


u 


« Black Joke 


283^ 


4 


u 


" Maria 


30 
30 


4 
4 


u 


Schooner Betsey 


u 


Sloop Rachael 


26 


3 


u 


" Dove 


30 
30 


4 
4 


u 


" Reprisal 


u 


Schooner Baltimore 


30 


4 


a 


Sloop Sir James Wallace . . 


30 


4 


u 


" Mary Ann 


30 


4 


a 


Pettiaugre Beaver 


u 


« 


u 


Armed Vessels Viz 








Sloop Formidable 


156 


17 


At £6 Ster per 
month 


Brig Defiance 


149M 


19 


u 


Sloop Ranger 


150 


17 


u 


Brig Spitfire 


120 


15 


a 


" Rambler 


128K 


19 


u 


" Lurcher 


130 


17 


u 


Sloop Nancy 


50M 


9 


u 


" Maria 


45 


7 


u 


Schooner May Flower £50 








Ster^ per Month 


u 


&7 


u 


" Lapwing ... Do 


u 


7 


a 


" Swallow Do 


u 


8 


u 


" Mercury Do 


ii 


7 


u 



28 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Barrack Master General's De- 
partment In December 1780 



Brig Three Friends 

Sloop Friendship 

" Governor Provost.. 

« Peggy 

" Beggars Bennison. . 

" Happy Couple 

" Mary 

" Mohawk 

Schooner Hope 

" Lord Howe . . . . 
" Lady Howe . . . . 



Tons 



103 
90 
55 

96M 
119 
75 
83 
50 

lOOH 

1021^ 

66 



Men 



Engineer Department 


Tons 


Men 




Sloop Freelove 1 

Theodosia / 


280 







No 9— 

Return of Drivers, Horses and Waggons furnished by 
of the Army in North America in the District of New York by 
and Staff Ofl&cers and several Corps of the Army between 1st 

Distribution 



Command"^ in Chief 7 large Waggons with 4 horses to each 

Waggon 

Lately attached to Lt Gen^ Earl Cornwallis now attending on 

Major Gen' Phillips & Reidesel 3 large Do 

Lieut General Robertson 

I Paterson 

Brigad"" Generals < j , ^ 

[ Birch 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



29 



Barrack Master General's De- 


Tons 


Men 




partment In December 1780 




Schooner George 


95 






" Betsy 


69 






" St Andrews .... 


972^ 






" Friends 


653^ 






" Free Mason 


87M 






« Mary 


74 






" Vigilant 


103 






" Escape 


85 






** General Phillips 


132 






« William 


76M 







Engineer Department 


Tons 


Men 




Sloop Harriet 1 

Schooner Betsey / 


280 







Brigad'-General William DalrjTnple, Quarter Master General 
order of His Excellency the Commander in Chief for the General 
January & 31st March 1781 inclusive being 90 days. 









"o 










E 


£ 
o 


m 

a 


a 

S 

a 

o 




TO 


per Day 


New York 
Currency 


Q 


W 


^ 


O 


H 


Q 












Jan 


Mar 








7 


28 


7 


1 


31 


90 


147/ 


661-10-0 


3 


12 


3 


« 


« 




63/ 


283-10-0 


2 


4 


2 




« 




24/ 


108 


2 


4 


2 




a 




u 


108 


1 


2 


1 




ii 




12/ 


54 


2 


4 


2 




u 




24/ 


108 


1 


2 


1 




u 




12/ 


54 



30 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Distribution 



Adjutant General's Department 

Quarter Master General & Deputy's 

Commissary General 

Hospital for the Army & Navy 

Provost Martial 

British Corps 

17th Light Dragoons 

Ditto for their dismounted 

Corps of Light Infantry 

Ditto for their Mounted 

Corps of Grenadiers 

17th Regiment of Foot 

22d Do 

37th Do 

38th Do 

42d Do 2 Battalions 

Carried forward 

No 9 — Continued 

Brought forward 

43d Regiment 

54th Do These Waggons now attached to the Drafts and 

Recruits under the Comm<^ of Major Cuffe 

57th Regiment 

76th Ditto 

80th Ditto 

Provincial Staff Corps 

(DeLancey 
Skinner 
Arnold 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



31 



> 

g 


QQ 

1 


GO 

c 

1 


a 

o 
O 


1 


Q 


per Day 


New York 
Currency 


3 


6 


3 


u 


K 


« 


36/ 


162 


3 


6 


3 


a 


U 


u 


u 


162 


2 


4 


2 


u 


U 


u 


24/ 


108 


12 


24 


12 


u 


U 


u 


144/ 


648 


1 


2 


1 


u 


U 


u 


12 


54 


7 


14 


7 


u 


U 


u 


84/ 


378 


2 


4 


2 


u 


U 


u 


24/ 


108 


20 


40 


20 


u 


U 


u 


240/ 


1080 


1 


2 


1 


u 


U 


u 


12/ 


54 


20 


40 


20 


u 


li 


u 


240 


1080 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


u 


60 


270 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


u 


u 


270 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


u 


li 


270 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


u 


u 


270 


10 


20 


10 


u 


u 


u 


120 


540 


119 


258 


119 


u 


u 


u 


ii 


£6831 


119 


258 


119 


u 

Jan 


u 

Mar 


u 


ii 


£6831 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


90 


60/ 


270 


5 


10 


5 


11 


u 


u 


(( 


270 


5 


10 


5 


u 


u 


u 


li 


270 


10 


20 


10 


u 


u 


u 


120/ 


540 


10 


20 


10 


u 


li 


u 


li 


540 


1 


2 


1 


u 


u 


a 


12/ 


54 


1 


2 


1 


u 


li 


u 


11 


54 


1 


2 


1 


u 


u 


u 


ii 


54 



32 PEOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Distribution 



Inspector General for Stores &c 

Queens Rangers Mounted & Dismounted. 

3d Battal" of DeLancey's Brigade 

1st Battalion 

Skinner's Brigade. 



4th Do 

Loyal American Regiment Colonel Robinson . 

Garrison Battalion 

Staten Island Troop Light Horse 

Captain Diemars Troop of Hussars 

Detachment at the Light House 

Loyal New Englanders 

Governor Wentworths Vol. Troop 

Guides and Pioneers 



Hessian Staff 

General Knyphausen Staff and suit. 

DeLosberg 

De Gasen 

Major Generals^ De Kospoth 

I De Hackenburg. . 
[ De Wurmb 



Carried forward 

Brought forward 

Artillery Staff & Train of Reserve under the Commd of Lt 

Col Pittel [Eitell] 

Ditto, Ditto, for Stores & Tools 

Ditto for a Field Forge Amunition lost & Spare Wheel 

Carriages 

Hessian Hospit' for Medicine Chest, Bag &c 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



33 



'C 
Q 


00 




a 
1 

a 
6 


a 

w 


Q 


per Day 


New York 
Currency 


2 


4 


2 


u 


« 


a 


24/ 


108 


9 


18 


9 


u 


u 


u 


108/ 


486 


4 


8 


4 


u 


u 


li 


48/ 


216 


3 


6 


3 


u 


u 


u 


36/ 


162 


/ 3 


6 


3 


(I 


u 


u 


ii 


162 


1 3 


6 


3 


u 


u 


u 


u 


162 


3 


6 


3 


a 


u 


u 


u 


162 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


24/ 


108 




2 




a 


u 


u 


12/ 


54 




2 




u 


u 


a 


« 


54 




2 




u 


u 


(I 


a 


54 




2 




u 


u 


u 


ii 


54 




2 




u 


u 


u 


a 


54 




2 




u 


(I 


u 


ii 


54 


12 


26 


12 


u 


a 


ii 


u 


688 10 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


24/ 


108 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


ii 


108 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


a 


108 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


a 


108 


2 


4 


2 


u 


u 


u 


ii 


108 


214 


540 


214 


u 


u 


ii 


li 


£11941 10 


214 


540 


214 


Jan 


u 

Mar 


u 


11 


11941 10 


3 


8 


3 


1 


31 


90 


42/ 


189 


1 


2 


1 


u 


(I 


11 


12/ 


54 


u 


13 


u 


u 


li 


u 


39 


175 10 


4 


8 


4 


u 


u 


ii 


48/ 


216 



34 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Distribution 



Hessian Corps 
for Transporting Artillery Ammunit"* & Baggage 
Grena*^ Batt. Linsing — for Baggage 

Cannon & Amun° 

Gren*^' Batt. Lingriek 

for Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun° 

Gren*^ Batt. Lowenstein 

for Baggage 

Cannon & Ammim" 

Gren*^ Batt. Graff 

for Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun° 

Regt du Corps 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun" 

Regt Landgrave 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun" 

Regt Prince Heredity 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun" 

Regt Prince Charles 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun'^ 

Regt Donop 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Anunim" , 

Regt Mirbach now Young Losberg 

For Baggage , 

Cannon & Ammun'' , 

Regt Bunnau 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun" 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



35 



w 



12 


6 


17 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


17 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 


12 


6 


13 


1 



u 



a 






per Day 



New York 
Currency 



72/ 


324 




57/ 


256 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




57/ 


256 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 


72/ 


324 




45/ 


202 


10 



36 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Distribution 



Hussars Mounted & dismounted 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammun 

Combined Batt. Baggage 

Carried forward 

No 9 — Continued 

Brought forward 

Regiment of Anspach 
1st Regim* 

For Baggage 

Camion & Ammunition 

2d Regim* 

For Baggage 

Cannon & Ammunition 

Anspach Yagers for Baggage 

Extra Waggons with 4 horses for each Waggon as Provision 
Train and for the supply of the Engineer, Barrack Master & 
Commissary General's Departments in the transportation & 
Collecting of Stores, Provisions, Forage, Fuel &c for the 
Troops and Materials for the Construction of Fortifications, 
Barracks, & Hutts for the Troops Cantoned, the supply of 

the King's Ship Yards and other Pubhck Works 

Extra Ditto Carts and Drays for Do Do and Extra duties for 

the Army 

Drivers, Horses and Waggons attached to the Bridge Master 
for transporting of Pontoon Boats and Materials for the 
building of Bridges 36 large Waggons with 4 horses each 

Waggon 2 Do with 2 horses each 

Horses for the mounting of Guides & Expresses as also for the 
Waggon Masters & Conductors and the transportation of 
Field Forges 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 37 



16 
10 
10 



805 
805 



14 

12 

14 

12 
4 



800 
100 

148 



1973 



313 
313 



o 



200 
50 

38 



617 



Jan 
1 



Q 



Mar 
31 



90 



per Day 



96/ 

45/ 
60/ 



84/ 
36/ 

84/ 
36/ 

24/ 



4200/ 
600/ 



192/ 



New York 
Currency 



432 

202 10 
270 



£19447 10 
19447 10 



378 
162 



378 
162 
108 



18900 
2700 

3510 

864 



£46609 10 



38 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 10— 

Comparative View to purchase or to hire Vessels, Horses 
from 1st January to 31st March 1781. 

Quarter Master General's Department 

34 Sloops and Schooners £500 each 

14 Small Vessels 100 

8 Armed Vessels 1000 

4 Dispatch Boats 250 



1973 Horses at £16 

250 large Waggons 40 10000 

367 Small Ditto 20 7340 



Barrack Master General's Department 

21 Sloops at 500 each 

50 Waggons 20 

100 Horses 16 



Commissary General's Department 

24 Sloops and Schooners £500 each. 

25 Waggons 20 

50 Horses 16 



Carried forward 

No 10 — Continued Brought over. 

Engineer Department 

4 Sloops £500 each 

6 Waggons 20 

15 Horses 16 



at 4/8 per Dollar equal to £180116-11-5 Currency 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 39 



and Waggons employed at present in the different Departments 



Sterling 



1700 




1400 




8000 




1000 




27400 




31568 




17340 


76308 


10500 




1000 




1600 


13100 


12000 




500 




800 


13300- 0- 




£102708- 0- 




£102708- 0- 


2000 




120 




240 


2360 



£105068- 0- Sterling 



40 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Quarter Master General's Department 

The present Vessel hire for one Quarter from 1st January to 31st 

March 1781 

Horses and Waggon hire for Ditto 

Barrack Master General's Department 

Vessel hire for one Quarter October to December 1780 

Cart and Waggon hire for Ditto 

Commissary General's Department 

Vessel hire from 1st January to 31st March 1781 

Do for the Forage Office & other incidental expences 

Cart & Waggon Hire £1880-17-0 

Ditto in the Forage Office 1000 



Carried forward 

Brought over 

Engineer Department 

Vessel Hire from 1st January to 31st March 1781 

Waggon hire from Ditto Do 

at par 
Six Months Hire of the above £180897 8 4 Currency 



OF THE BEITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 41 

Currency 



23296 


9 


4 






46609 


10 





69905 19 


4 


5881 


17 







4103 








9985 1 





5732 








500 










2880 


17 





9112 17 










£89003 17 


4 








Currency 










£89003 17 


4 


Sterling 


r 
> 






544 


19 


6 






267 


15 





1444 16 




812 


14 


6 is 


10 




£90448 14 


2 



42 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 11— 

Amount of Savings to Government upon the largest Scale 
from a Comparison of one Quarter from 1st January to 31st 
March 1781. 

Ballance from Commissary General's Depart- 
ment £30706 11 8 

Ditto Engineer's Department 3097 7 4 

Ditto Barrack Master General's 25306 10 8 

Ditto Quarter Master Generals 186802 10 8 



£245913 4 



} 



10000 



Currency 
Allow for repair of 120 Vessels employed in 
the different Departments in addition to 
the present Establishment of workmen and 

Materials ^ 

For Repairs of 672 Waggons Ditto 1000 

Ballance 234913 



£245913 4 



New York Currency 
In the Quart*" Master General's Department 

The Horses employed by the Q"^ Master 

General cost for yearly hire 200000 

The Forage for 2000 horses at £90 a head. . . 180000 
Rations for the Drivers, their Wives & Children 

may suppose at least 1000 at 3/6 Currency 

pr day 63875 



Charges for Wages to Black Smiths, Collar 
Makers Wheelwrights, Sawyers &c. with 
Iron for shoeing the Horses and keeping 
the waggons in repair 

For Waggon Master and Conductors &c . . . 



443875 



20000 



8000 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 43 

Besides the expence of Stables & Work shops 

about 5000 



£476875 

The hire of Vessels amounts to about 100000 

Provisions for the Men in small Vessels andl 



Extra armed Men about 80 at 3/6 

Contingent Bill per Quarter 1216 19 5 

This account arises from a supposition that the whole Army- 
is to take the Field the first of January, and to be provided 
with every Horse and Carriage that possibly may be in demand 
for the whole Year, and that the Country can afford no resource 
which might occasionally be called into use. 

No 12— 

Vide Major Drummond's letter to Sir Henry Clinton 

19th July 1781. 

See page 1st of this Book. 

No 13— 

Sketch of a Plan of a Board of Works to be appointed to 
Controul and direct upon general Principles the Various De- 
partments of the Army; to include all the Contingencies, 
charges and works as may be denominated Extra leaving the 
particular detail of each Department to its own Government. 

The Board to be composed of the following Officers under 
the immediate direction and Superintendency of a General 
Officer. 

A Comptroller with the Agents of Transports & Assistants 

Paymaster 

The Commissary of Accounts from his present Commission 
being entitled to examine and Certify the Expenditure of all 
Monies; it will therefore be necessary that the Board before 
they enter into any engagements or contracts in behalf of 
Government, do lay the same before the Conmiissary of 
Accounts, who will present it to His Excellency the Commander 
in Chief for his approbation. 

It is proposed that the Board should inspect into all pur- 
chases and Contracts for the Various Articles wanting for the 



44 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Service and direct the payments of all Monies incurred under 
those Heads as well as the payment of the Extra Artificers and 
of the various Branches under its Cognizance and that it should 
have the entire management and direction of all the armed 
Vessels, Gun Boats, Batteaux, Flat Bottom Boats, Sloops and 
small Craft that may be necessary and expedient for carrying 
on of the publick service with the reparations also requisite for 
the whole and authority to order all the necessary transpor- 
tation and conveyance of Stores &c by land or Water for these 
several objects; having first reported their opinion to the 
Commander in Chief, and having his permission and Sanction 
for such Plans being finally carried into execution. 

This arrangement to include likewise the Establishment of 
a Ship Yard with a Master Carpenter for inspecting into the 
state of all the Army Vessels which by this proposed arrange- 
ment will of course be collected under one head from the several 
departments and for keeping them in constant repair. All 
these Officers are already in a great measure established. 

In order that the King's Service may not be retarded, and 
that the Establishments, w^hen they may be finally fixed upon, 
may be constantlly compleat in every part. The Board to 



No. 1— 

Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in the 
Capt° Henry Chads, Agent. 



No. 



10 



Vessels Name 



Peggy 

Caesar 

Sally 

Mary Ann 
Ranger .... 
Arnold .... 

Appollo 

Dianna — 
Agness .... 
John 



Sort 



Brig 
Sloop 

u 
Brig 



Sloop 

u 

Schooner 
Sloop 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



45 



direct the construction of all Workshops, storehouses and Build- 
ings to be inclosed in proper Yards for the purpose of Repairs; 
and for refitting whatever may be lost or damaged in the 
unavoidable exigencies of the Service; as it will tend much to the 
benefit of the Service to have Storehouses immediately erected 
to serve as deposits for Provisions, with buildings to contain all 
the requisite Articles for the Equipment of the different Vessels &c. 

The Board to finally determine upon all such matters, and 
to order their being carried into execution if they appear upon 
the Examination of the Board to be useful and right to be done. 
The Position of these Yards, Storehouses &c to be fixed in 
such Situations as their Expediency and propriety may point 
out. 

The Board to order all Surveys and Musters of every De- 
partment in the Army, whenever it may be judged proper & 
fitting to take them, and all Estimates attending the publick 
Works to be laid before it; which they will immediately lay 
before the Commander in Chief. 

Major Bruin being sent for delivered into the Board sundry 
Returns of Vessels, Drivers, Horses and Waggons furnished by 
the Quarf Master Generals, Viz*: — 



Quart. Master General's Department under the direction of 



Master's Names 


Tons 


Remarks 


Sam' Nesbitt 


145 


Horse 


Vessel 


at Cape Fear 


Balfour 


110 


Horse Vessels 


now in Virginia 


Luttill 


1263^ 




a 




u u 


Alex"" Morrison 


144 




u 




u u 


Michael Neal 


117M 




u 




u u 


Wm Young 


i2Qy2 




u 




u u 


Jas Camplien 


114 




a 




a u 


Edw^ Ross 


137% 




u 




u a 


Nath' Proctor 


110 




u 




u u 


EdW* Welchford 


106% 




(( 




u a 



46 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Return brought forward and Continued — 



No. 



15 



20 



25 



29 
30 



35 



Vessels Name 



Gen' Reidesel. 
North 



Jupiter 

Mary 

Escape 

Neptune (arm'd). 
Peggy (arm'd) . . . 

Gigg 

Lucy 

Mary Anne 



Betsey. . 
Rachael . 



Falmouth . 
Duncan . . . 



Betsey 

Alexander. 



Albany 

Eagle 

Christopher. 
Sally 



Pool 

Harlequin 

Sr Jas Wallace. 

Reprizal 

Baltimore 

Brittania , 



Byron 

Black Joke. 



Sort 



Ship 
Brig 

Sloop 

a 

Schoon' 
Sloop 



Schooner 
Brig 

Ship 
Brig 

Sloop 
Sloop 



Schooner 
Sloop 

Schoon' 
Sloop 



Schoon'' 
Sloop 

Sloop 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 47 



Master's Names 


Tons 


Remarks 


Wm Boyers 


150 


Gone with a Flag to Virginia 


John Potty 


130 


Horse Vessels at New York 
ready for Sea 


Eph™ Harvey 


135 


u u 


Thos Smith 


122 


u u 


Smith 


85 


u u 


Stewart Ross 


1291^ 


Stationed at Harlem 


George Elvine 


102H 


1 Attending His Excellency The 
J Commander in Chief 


Wm Weatherspoon 


56 


Thos Brown 


59 


Attending the Light House 


Wm Griffin 


30 


Attending the Post at Staten 
Island 


Jas Ballingtine 


30 


u u 


Rich'i Brady 


144 


Ship yard to hold Stores &c 
belonging to Batteaux &c 


John Christie 


221 


Prison Ship 


Dun""' Nichol 


125 


Attend^ the Guard at the 
Wallabought 


Mich' Grant 


451^ 


u u 


Christ Coggel 


130 


Bringing Timber &c to the Qr 
Master General's Ship Yard 


Chas Bidder 


111 


« u 


Fras Crawford 


45% 


u u 


Frans Beevin 


81M 


u u 


Wm Murray 


601^ 


Bringing Wood for the use of 
the Troops in Camp 


Jacob Louzada 


30 


u u 


Thos Glentworth 


40 


u u 


Roger Shannon 


30 


u u 


Chas Lyon 


30 


u u 


Luke Dixon 


30 


Express Boat 


Wm Smith 


50% 


Carrying Baggage &c to the 
different posts 


Dun'' White 


30 


u u 


Rich'd Powdril 


^m 


u u 



48 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No. 


Vessels Name 


Sort 




Diligence 


Sloop 


40 


Rachael 




Dove 


(( 




Nancy 


« 




Beaver 


Petteaugre 









No 2— 

List of armed Vessels and Dispatch Boats in His Majesty's 
inspection of Captain Tonkin Agent 



How Rigged 



Names of 



Brig 

Sloop 
« 

Brig 



Schooner 

u 

Sloop 



Vessels Masters 

Defiance Jos Nash . . . . 
Formidable Nat^Horton, 

Ranger Alex Cairns . 

Spitfire Roger Pye.. 

Rambler Wm Austin. 

Lurcher Jas Taylor . . 

Dispatch Boats 

Swallow Jas Watson. 

Mercury Geo Galton. 

Maria Peter Stark. 

Nancy Roger Pert . 

Swift Jas Ridley . . 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



49 



Master's Names 


Tons 


Remarks 


Jos Beatty 

Martin Taylor 
John Adams 
Vin* Wynants 
Corn. Van Voorst 


30 

26 
30 

29M 


Carrying Baggage &c to the 
different posts 

u a 
a a 

u a 

Attending Paulus Hook 



New York 1st August 1781 

H. Chads Agent 



Service in the Quarter Master General's Department under the 



No of Guns & W* of Metal 
Pounders 






18 


12 


9 


6 


4 


3 


Swivels 






14 


u 


2 


u 


« 


« 


ii 


Virginia 




12 


2 


u 


u 


u 


« 


u 


ditto 




2 


12 


a 


u 


u 


u 


« 


Huntington 


Bay 


u 


8 


(( 


4 


u 


u 


a 


Virginia 




a 


u 


u 


16 


u 


u 


a 


do 




u 


u 


u 


12 


u 


u 


a 


Hampstead 


Harbour 


a 


u 


u 


(( 


u 


2 


4 






u 


u 


u 


a 


u 


2 


6 






u 


(( 


2 


(( 


u 


4 


2 






a 


u 


u 


u 


a 


6 


2 






u 


u 


u 


u 


2 


u 


4 


Virginia 





Thos Tonkin 



50 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 3— 

A List of Ship Carpenters, Joyners, Caulkers & Sawyers &c 
building and Repairing Gallies, Small Craft, Flat bottomed 
1st July 1781. 

Maurice Salt — 
Thomas Dodge — 

Ship Carpenters 
Robert Baker Sen 
Robert Baker Junr 
William Baker 
Alexand"" Ogilvie 
John Degroat 
Isaac Dodge 
John Ogden 
Rufus Handy 
William Sneedan 
Jonathan Lawrence 
Thomas Drake 
Samuel Sneedan 

Caulkers 
John De Baptist 
Peter Noe 
Benjamin Dodge 

No 4— 

Return of Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Sawyers, Blacksmiths 
Department in the District of New York, Commencing 1st July 



William Harmay, 



Carpenters and Sawyers 
John McKenley 
Joseph Thomas 
John Wilson 1st 
Aenos Roberts 
Dougal Campbell 
John McGowen Sen 
George Harp 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 51 



employed in the Quarter Master General's Department in 
Boats, Batteaux Boats & Scows in the District of New York 

Master Carpenter 
Foreman 

Joiners 
John Ansley 
John Wheaten 

Sawyers 
Patrick Coil 
John Hicker 
Gilbert McKinny 
Jesse Armstrong 
Samuel McCormick 
William Snydan 

Black Smiths 

Thomas Jennings, Master Black Smith 
John Saunders 
Richard Brooks 
Israel Pell 



and Harness makers, employed in the Quarter Master General's 
1781. 



Master Carpenter 



John Gomez 
George Johnson 
John Wilson 2d 
Thomas Cussans 
John Martin 
John McGowen Junr 
Stephen Goldsmith 
James Bowens 



52 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

William Paterson 
Dennis Slaughter 
Zacheus Curl 
Alexander Elms 
Laban Waters 
Geo Wilkerson 
Francis Moore 
John King 
Charles Parlet 
Josiah Martin 
WiUiam McLeod 
Francis Graham 
John Leatch 
Charles Dixon 
William Owen 
John McKenna 
Peter Duck 
Henry Arrosmith 
Peter Paterson 
John Goldin 
Josiah Davis 
Charles Maxwell 
Rich*! Hollinsby 
Robert Trumbull 
John Dean 
Henry Seamon 
Justice Werdright 

Black Smiths 

Joseph Fox, Master Blacksmith 

John Fox 

Isaac Roop 

Jonathan Jones 

Benjamin Skinner 

Jeremiah Hays 

William Bailliff 

Skelyan Rhodes 

Bastian Niel 

James Pasehall 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 53 

Mich^ Van Sucklin 
James Humphreys 
James Dougherty- 
Titus Fritts 
Sam^ Wilson 
Sam' Douling 
Peter Wallace 
Philip Shepherd 
George Weir 
Peter Young 
Nicholas Prickle 
Roger Dickison 
Patrick Duffy 
Fredk Seaburn 
Henry Banta 
Charles Ferguson 
Benj" Busby 
Robt Clark 
Jacob Howard 
Sipp Jordan 
John Howard 
Rob' Conday 
Jacob Chryst 
William Ford 

Harness Makers 
Martin Shaffer 
John Ure 
James Day 
William Butler 
Robert Carr 
John Marr 
David Jones 



Recapitulation 

Carpenters & Sawyers 43 

Black Smiths 34 

Harness Makers 7 



54 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 5— 

Return of Clerks, Storekeepers, Waggon Masters, Con- 
partment in the District of New York Commencing the 1st 

Clerks 
Samuel Bayard 
Hugh Cairns 
States Morris Dykman 
George West 

Abh™ Tradell, Storekeeper 
John J. Cluett, Assist Do 
James Molloy 
Richard Newton 

Oliver Bourdett Waggon Mast. Gen'. 
John Stewart Wagon Master 

Conductors 
James Henderson 
Jehu Hollingsworth 
Daniel Hammill 
Rich^ Cochran 
Will"" Moncrieff 
Hugh Hugh 
Thomas Willett 
James Davidson 
George Browne 
William Aireton 
John Lynch 
Robert McAllister 
Nicholas Brown 
Henry Jones 
Henry Hayes 
Walter Agnus 
Samuel Engle 
James French 
Joshua Roberts 
Samuel Grant 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 55 



ductors & Labourers employed in the Qr. Mast. General's De- 
July 1781. 

John Campbell 
Bazellia Dodge 
Daniel Burtnell 
Robert Buttock 
James Read 
William Foster 
James Guffy 
George Shriver 
William Clarke 
James Littlewood 
Francis Erwine 
Joseph Gale 
John Stillwell 
James Jones 
Robert Lowry 
Thomas Dolton 
Benj" Stems 
John Granger 
James Morsett 
Thomas McManus 
Robert Payne 
And'' Smith 
David White 
John Stump 
Duncan Grant Overseer 
William Allen Asst Do 

Labourers 
Wm Sutherland 
John Fowl 
Joseph Lovell 
John Baine 
John Watkins 
John Smith 
Wm Mcintosh 



56 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Thomas Brown 
John Potter 
Joseph Ford 
John Butler 
John Shaw 
Thomas Nowland 
John Nowlan 
John McLeland 
Jeremiah Hallett 
Joseph Black 
John Fraser 
Joseph Coats 
William Stepney 
WilUam Sampson 
William Stepney 
Caeser Moore 
John Smith 
Isaac Murray 
Frank Summons 
Joseph Smith 
Glasco Woolsey 
Abraham Smith 
Anthony Gilmore 
Michael McGill 

The Board agreed on writing to the Heads of the four 



Sir:— 

On examining some papers laid before us it appears that 
to the different Departments amounts to £1079412 

And that the AVarrants granted by Sir Henry Clinton for 

We are at a loss to conjecture the cause of the great Excess 

ideas on the cause of increase of Expence as far as relates to 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 57 

Mingo Lesly 
Isaac Simon 
George Wakefall 
Joseph Bartley 
Samuel Van Ryper 
Pompey Colt 
Gilbert Lafforts 
Glaus Henning 
Reuben Lewis 
Peter Van Laun or Saun 
David Hall 
Jacob Larnerson 
John Thomas 
John Ferrill 
John McKenna 
Charles Jenkins 



Recapitulation 

Clerks 4 

Storekeepers 4 

Waggon Masters and 

Conductors 46 

Labourers 49 

principal Departments a letter as follows: — 

New York, 14th August 1781 

from the 13th December 1775 to 14th May 1778, the Warrants 

nearly an equal space of time amounts to £3278429 

in the last period, and will be obliged to you to give as your 

your Department 

I have the honor to be &c &c 
A. Stewart, Secy 

To the Board of Gen' Officers 



58 PROCEEDINGS OP A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Copy of the above sent to the 
Quarter Master General, Barrack 
Master General, Commissary General 
Command^ Engineer. 

Then the Board adjourned till tomorrow at 10 o'clock in 
the forenoon. 

Wednesday 15th August 1781. 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last night. 
Present 
His Excellency Lieutenant General James Robertson 
Lieutenant General Campbell 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Honorable Andrew Elliot 1 

& y Esq" 

The Honorable Henry White J 

Agreed to write the Commissary General the following 
Letter : — 
Sir:— 

The Board has desired me to inform you that they will be 
obliged to you for a Return of Rations issued to the Men 
employed in the different Departments by Land and Water, 
also for their Wives and Children: — 

Likewise a Return of the Rations of Forage issued for the 
Horses employed in the different Departments. And that you 
will have the goodness to furnish them with an Estimate of the 
expence of Forage for 100 or any Number of Horses to Govern- 
ment for a year. 

A Stewart, Secy 

to the Board of Gen' Officers 
Daniel Wier, Esq' 
Commy General 

Received Colonel Crosby's answer to the Circular Letter of 
yesterday as follows: — 

New York August 15th 1781 
Gentlemen : — 

Late last night I received a letter of yesterday's date under 
the Signature of Adam Stewart, who subscribes himself Secretary 
to the Board of General Officers, acquainting me that On exam- 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 59 

ining "some papers laid before them it appears that from the 
13th of December 1775 to the 14th of May 1778 the Warrants 
of the different Departments amounts to £1079412 and that 
the Warrants granted By Sir Henry Chnton for nearly an equal 
space of time amounts to £3278429." He likewise informs me 
"that they are at a loss to conjecture the cause of the great 
excess in the last period," and the Board "requests my ideas 
on the cause of encrease of expence as far as relates to my 
Department." 

Having no knowledge of the expences of the Department 
prior to my appointment, on the 1st July 1780 I am totally 
incompetent to an opinion on a question of such importance 
and therefore cannot presume to venture an idea upon a subject 
which retrospects transactions I am entire stranger to; I would 
be happy could I throw any degree of light upon so interesting 
an enquiry; but the reasons I have given will I am persuaded 
convince you that it is impossible for me to assign any cause 
for the encrease of the publick expence so far as relates to my 
Department in a period antecedent to my appointment. 

Whatever falls within my own knowledge and respects my 
own Accounts, I shall at all times be ready to give you the most 
explicit information. 

I have the honor to be 

Gentlemen &c &c 

Wm Crosbie 
B.M.G. 

His Excellency 
Lieut General Robertson 
President &c &c &c 
They next agreed to write Capt Chads the following letter. 

Sir:— 

I am directed by the Board of General Officers to inform you 
that they will be obliged to you for a General Return of all 
Vessels of whatever denomination in Government Employ; 
for which you grant Certificates with the Tonnage, number of 
Men in each and their Charter Partys. 

I have the honor to be Sir &c &c 
A. Stewart Secy 

to the Board of General Officers. 



60 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Capt Chads Agent 

of Army Transports 

Copy of the same to Capt Tonkin Agent for Armed Vessels. 

Then the Board Adjourned themselves to Friday next at 
10 o'clock. 

Friday New York 17th August 1781 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Wednesday. 
Present 

His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Lieut General Campbell 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Hon^i" Andrew Elliot 1 

and \ Esq" 

The Honbi« Henry White J 

Read Captain Alexander Mercer's Answer to the Circular 
Letter of the 14th of August as follows: — 

15th August 1781 
Sir:— 

In answer to your letter of yesterday's date, I beg you will 
be pleased to inform the Board of General Officers that, from 
the extent & nature of the Service of the Engineer Department, 
the sums expended have been unavoidably very considerable; 
nor am I conscious of having incurred any unnecessary expence. 
On the contrary I have endeavored to observe the strictest 
Oeconomy, by discharging from time to time all useless hands, 
and by avoiding the purchase of Materials, unless absolutely 
wanted. 

It will be allowed I hope that the works which have been, 
and are still carrying on, under my direction, are upon a much 
larger scale than anything hitherto done for the defence of this 
place and its Dependencies. These have necessarily required 
the constant labour of a number of artificers, as well as the 
purchase of lumber. Plank and materials of all kinds to a very 
considerable amount. 

I must here observe that from the care I have taken to keep 
the Men usefully employed in cutting and collecting all kinds of 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 61 

materials &c &c there has been a saving to Government I firmly 
believe, nearly equal to the whole expence of the Department. 

The expenditure of Entrenching and cutting Tools, nails and 
other materials in Hutting the Troops upon the three Islands 
was very considerable. 

The Board will allow that the fitting out the Expeditions 
from General Grants time to this, must have been attended 
with a very great Expence. 

I beg to observe for the information of the Board that the 
prices of all kinds of Materials are advanced many hundreds pr 
Cent to what they formerly were. Lumber in particular is at a 
very high price, and no wonder as I am well informed that the 
Retailers of this Town sell Common Boards at the rate of £100 
pr Thousand feet. The Wages of Artificers and Labourers are 
advanced in proportion, and it is constant employment only, 
that prevents our Artificers from quitting the service. 

The General payment of working parties was not only 
expensive but unattended with any good consequence, I there- 
fore took the liberty of discontinuing that Channel of expence. 

The few Sloops and Schooners attached to the Department 
have been usefully employed. 

I have mentioned I think all the material points of Expence, 
but as I wish to give the Board every information, I must beg 
of you, Sir, to inform me if I have omitted any thing necessary 
for that purpose. 

I have the honor to be 
Sir, &c 

Alex Mercer 

Comm^ Engineer. 
Adam Stewart, Esq 

Secretary to the Board 

of General Officers 

Received and read Captain Tonkin's Answer to the letter 
wrote him the 15th Instant as follows: — 

17th August 1781 
Sir:— 

I herewith transmit you (agreeable to Mr Stewart's request) 
a Return of armed Vessels and Dispatch Boats, which the 



62 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Commander in Chief particularly desired I might see fitted 
properly, and as they were Charter let by the Quarter Master 
General, and not by me, I am to beg leave to refer you to his 
Office for that information. 

The Dispatch Boats from their being so small are Chartered 



List of Armed Vessels and Dispatch Boats in His Majesty's 
inspection of Captain Tonkin Agent for Transports. 



How Rigged 



Vessels 



Name of 
Masters 



Brig 

Sloop 

a 

Brig 



Schooner 
(( 

Sloop 



Defiance Jos Nash 

Formidable Nath Horton . . 

I^anger Alex Cairns 

Spitfire Rich** Pendar. . 

Rambler Wm Austin 

Lurcher Jas Taylor 

Dispatch Boats 

Swallow James Watson. 

Mercury George Galton. 

Maria Peter Stark 

Nancy Rogert Pert . . . 

Swift Jas Ridley 



Received and read Captain Chad's Answer to the letter sent 



Sir:— 

Agreeable to Mr Stewart's letter of the 15th instant, I here- 
whatever denomination in Government Employ for which I 
each, and the Charter Partys for those Vessels which I have 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



63 



by the Month at £50 each, without regard to Tonnage, as I 
found the owners would be losers by any other means. 
I have the honor to be 
Sir &c &c 

Thomas Tonkin 

Agent for Transports 

His Excellency 

Lieut Gen^ Robertson 
&c &c &c 



Service in the Quarter Master General's Department under the 





No of Guns & 


w* of Metal 


N°of 
Men 


Tons 




Pounders 


Swivels 


By whom 


18 


12 


9 


6 


4 


3 


Armed 


14 


« 


2 


« 


a 


u 


u 


28 


149-% 


Crown 


12 


2 


« 


u 


u 


u 


u 


26 


156 


u 


2 


12 


u 


u 


u 


a 


u 


26 


156 


tl 


« 


8 


u 


4 


u 


u 


u 


22 


120 


u 


u 


ii 


u 


16 


u 


u 


u 


26 


128-K 


Owners 


u 


« 


u 


12 


u 


u 


u 


24 


130 


u 


u 


(( 


u 


a 


u 


2 


4 


11 


u 


Owners 


u 


« 


u 


u 


u 


2 


6 


10 


u 


a 


u 


(( 


2 


u 


u 


4 


2 


10 


u 


a 


u 


(( 


u 


u 


u 


6 


2 


12 


u 


u 


u 


(( 


11 


a 


2 


u 


4 


10 


u 


u 



him of the 15th Instant as follows: 



Thos Tonkin 



17th August 1781 



with transmit your Excellency a Return of all the Vessels of 
grant certificates with their Tonnage and number of men in 
chartered since I have been Agent, excepting a few of small 



64 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Tonnage which have not been usually Chartered. All the 
Papers home with him leaving with His Excellency the Com- 
myself Copies of the same. 



His Excellency 
Lt Genl Robertson 

Enclosure. 

Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in the 
Captain Henry Chads Agent. 



No. 



10 



15 
17 



Vessels Names 



Three Friends 

Hope 

Betty 

St Andrew 

Mary 

Free Mason 

Friends 

William 

Friendship 

Mohawk 

Happy Couple . . . 

Peggy 

Susannah 

Defiance 

Generous Friends, 

York 

Clinton 



Sort 



Brig 
Schoon"^ 



Sloop 



School/ 



Enclosure 

Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in 
of Captain Henry Chads Agent. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



65 



others were Chartered by Captain Laird who carried the official 
mander in Chief Returns of the Vessels then in Service and 

I have the honor to be 
Sir &c 

H. Chads, Agent 



Barrack Master General's Department under the direction of 



Masters Names 



Fran' Kirk 
Lemuel Douglas 
Wm Wallace 
Geo Jefferson 

Gardner 
Sami Eldrid 
Peter Anderson 
Wm Johnston 

Ward 
Wm Adams 
John Stanton Sen 
Will"" May 
Peter Parker 
Silas Perry 
Giles Stanton 
Sam^ Parry 
Phil Ackling 



Tons 


No of 
Men 


103 


6 1 


lOOK 


6 


69 


4 1 

5f 


97% 


74 


4 


87>| 


4] 


651^ 


3 


76 


4 


90 


5 


50 


3 


75 


4 


96M 


5 


119 


7 


56 


3 


101 


6 


124 


7 


30 


4 



Remarks 



Employed bringing Wood for 
the use of His Majesty's 
Garrison at New York. 



New York 17th August 1781 

H. Chads Agent. 



the Quarter Master General's Department under the direction 



66 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Vessels Names 



10 



15 



20 



25 



30 



35 



Peggy 

Caesar 

Sally 

Mary Anne 

Ranger 

Arnold 

Apollo 

Dianna 

Agnes 

John 

Gen' Reidesel . . . . 

North 

Jupiter 

Mary 

Escape 

Neptune (Armed) 
Peggy (Armed) . . . 

Gigg 

Mary Anne 

Dove 

Rachael 

Falmouth 

Duncan 

Betsey 

Christopher 

Eagle 

Sally 

Pool 

Harlequin 

Sr Jas Wallace 

Reprisal 

Baltimore 

Brittannia 

Byron 

Black Joke 



Sort 



Brig 
Sloop 

u 

Brig 

u 
u 

Sloop 

a 

Schoon'' 
Sloop 
Ship 
Brig 
Sloop 
Sloop 

Schoon'. 
Sloop 



Brig 

Ship 
Brig 
Sloop 
Schoon^ 
Sloop 

u 

Schoon'. 
Sloop 

u 
u 

Schoon'. 
Sloop 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



67 



Master's Names 


Tons 


No. of 
Men 


Remarks 


Samuel Nesbitt 


145 


8 


Horse Vessel Cape Fear 


Balfour 


110 


6 


Horse Vessel in Virginia 


Lattitt 


126% 


7 


u u u 


Alex Morrison 


144 


8 


u it a 


Neal 


117M 


7 


u u a 


William Young 


126^ 


7 


l( u u 


Jas Camplin 


114 


7 


u u a 


Edward Ross 


137%- 


8 


u u u 


Nath' Proctor 


110 


6 


u it a 


Edw Welchford 


106% 


6 


u u a 


William Boyes 


150 


9 


Gone to Virginia w% a Flag 


John Potty 


130 


'] 


Horse Vessel at New York 


Ephraim Harvey 


135 


8/ 




Thomas Smith 


122 


7 


u a 


Hugh Smith 


85 


5 


u u 


Stewart Ross 


129H 


28 


Stationed at Haerlem 


George Elvine 


102% 


12 1 


Attending His Excellency 


Wm Weatherspoon 


56 


5 / 


the Command*" in Chief 




30 


4I 


Attend^ the Post at Staten 


John Adams 


30 


4 J 


Island 


Richd Brady 


144 


8 


Ship yard attending the Bat- 
teaux & holding their stores 


John Christie 


221 


3 


Prison Ship 


Dune" Nichol 


125 


^\ 


Attend* the Guard at the 


Mich' Grant 


453^ 


3/ 


Wallabought 


Fran^ Beevin 


81M 


4 


Bringing Wood for the use of 


Fran' Crawford 


45% 


3 


the Troops in Camp 


Will™ Murray 


6034 


3 


« 


Jacob Louzada 


30 


4 


u 


Thos Glentworth 


40 


4 


a 


Roger Shannon 


30 


4 


u 


Charles Lyon 


30 


4 


u 


Luke Dixon 


30 


4 


Express Boat 


William Smith 


50M 


3 


Employed carrying Baggage 


Duncan White 


30 


4 


&c to the different Posts 


Richd Powdrill 


28K 


4 


u 



68 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Vessels Names 



Diligence . . 
Rachael . . . 

Nancy 

Betsey 

Beaver .... 
Greyhound 
Deligate . . . 



Sort 



Sloop 



Schoon^ 

Petti augre 

Schoon'. 



Enclosure 

Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in 
Captain Henry Chads Agent. 



No. 



10 



15 



Vessels Names 



Speedwell 

Howe (Armed) 
Polly (Armed). 

Sally 

Swan 

Brompton 

Betsey 

Thomas 

Industry 

Ranger 

Kent 

Cato , 

Refugee 

Brooklyn 

William 

Nixon 

Perfect 



Sort 



Sloop 

u 

Schoon"" 
Sloop 



Schoon^ 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



69 



Master's Names 


Tons 


No of 
Men 


Remarks 


Joseph Beattey 
Peter Ternand 
Winant Wynants 
Jas Ballingtine 
Corn. Van Voorst 
John Smith 
James Lilly 


30 
26 

29% 
30 


4 
3 
4 
4 
2 
6 
4 


a 
u 
u 
a 

Attending Paulus Hook 

Belonging to Government 
u u 



New York 17th August 1781 
H. Chads 
Agent 



the Commissary General's Department under the direction of 



Master's Names 


Tons 


No of 
Men 


Remarks 


John Johnston 


893^ 


5 


At Cape Fear 


Wm Blewitt 


81% 


13 


Refitting at N. Y. 


Henry Innes 


681/2 


24 


Stationed at E. Chester 


Rich'^ Chambers 


57 


3 


Carrying Provisions to the 


Samuel Marsh 


60 


3 


different Posts & bringing 


Joseph Marsh 


30 


4 


Forage for the use of the 


Nich^ Guignard 


52 


3 


Garrison. 


Jon" Hutchins 


46 


3 


u 


Thos Clarke 


28 


3 


u 


Elishua Davis 


55 


3 


u 


Wm Inkister 


60 


3 


u 


John Wilson 


50 


3 


u 


John Saily 


25 


3 


u 


Alex Innes 


60 


3 


u 


John Paterson 


60 


3 


u 


Rich"* Bayley 


29% 


4 


u 


Wm White 


60 


3 


u 



70 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No. 


Vessels Names 


Sort 




Dianna 


u 




Dove 


u 


20 


Elk 


Sloop 

u 


21 


Three Sisters 









Proceeded to examine the Accounts and Papers &c and no 
answer having been sent by Mr Wier, Commissary General. 
The Board Adjourned 'till Monday 10 o'clock. 

Monday 20th August 1781. 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Friday. 
Present. 
His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Lieut General Campbell 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Hon"^ Andrew Elliot 

& I' Esq^ 

The Hon*''* Henry White 

Read Major Bruen and Major Robertson's answer to the 
letter of 14th instant as follows: — 

New York 16th of August 1781. 
Sir:— 

We have had the honor of receiving a letter dated 14th inst 
from the Board of General Officers to which your Excellency is 
President, directed to the Quarter Master General as follows, 
"On examining some Papers laid before us it appears that from 
13th December 1775 to the 14th May 1778 the warrants of the 
different Departments amounts to £1079412. 

And that the warrants granted by Sir Henry Clinton for 
nearly an equal space of time amounts to £3278429. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 71 



Master's Names 


Tons 


No. of 
Men 


Remarks 


John Rowland 
Moses Bears 
Benj* Alder 
Jno Tyrrell 


56 

85 

« 

a 


3 
5 


« 
u 

Belonging to Government 

u 



New York 17th August 1781 
H. Chads 
Agent. 



We are at a loss to conjecture the cause of the great Excess 
in the last periods and will be obliged to you to give us your 
ideas on the cause of encrease of expence as far as relates to 
your Department." 

In answer to what relates to the Quarter Master General's 
Department, we as acting for him in his absence shall endeavour 
to give our ideas as Circumstantially as the distance of the time 
will admit of, and as far as come within our knowledge, both 
before and since our appointments to the Department. 

From 13th December 1775 to the 17 March the Troops under 
Sir William Rowe remained in Boston and Charles Town 
Heights without any movement to occasion any great expence. 
From 17th March to the Month of June following this small 
Army went to Halifax where they remained for some time, and 
from thence went to Staten Island, where they remained for the 
reinforcement from Europe. 

After the landing upon Long Island the Troops were never at 
such a distance from the water as to admit of the necessity of 
many Waggons being employed to supply them with Pro- 
visions &c, during the remaining part of the campaign towards 
the White Plains Provisions were always conveyed by water to 
a few miles distance from the Army. The great exertions and 
readiness of the Navy to supply whatever was demanded by 
the General made Land Carriage very easy. 

In November a Detachment of the Army under the command 
of Sir Henry Clinton embarked at New York to go to Rhode 
Island. A part of the Army returned to New York and another 



72 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

went to the Jersies under Lord Cornwallis; who was enabled to 
live mostly upon the Country, which at that time was plenti- 
fully stocked & the Inhabitants so much panic struck that 
Cattle &c could be collected without risk & continued so all the 
March to Trenton where the inhabitants seemed verj'' willing 
(in order to show their zeal) to draw in whatever was wanted; 
by this means the Land Carriage was had upon reasonable terms. 

As this zeal was but of very short duration it became ab- 
solutely necessary to draw a supply of Salt Provisions &c to the 
different Cantonments allotted to the Troops in the Jerseys 
from New York, and for this purpose a number of small Craft 
fit for the Navigation of the Rivers &c were ordered to be taken 
into the Service, and an Agent appointed who had the sole 
management and direction of them, and by his Certificates only 
they were paid by the Quarter Master General. Before this 
period the Quarter Master General had the sole direction of the 
water as well as Land Carriage. 

Thus we have endeavoured to account for the smallness of 
the Expenditures in the Department for upwards of twelve 
Months of the Periods mentioned, commencing the 13th of 
December 1775 occasioned by the particular Situation of the 
Army. 

During the winter 1776 and 1777 no further supply's of 
provisions were received from the Country in the Jersies on the 
contrary every kind of inveteracy was shown by the very In- 
habitants that had so short a time before taken the Oaths of 
Allegiance, so that no dependence was to be placed upon them, 
this naturally caused an encrease of both Land and Water 
Carriage. 

His Excellency Sir William Howe during this Winter ordered 
Sir William Erskine to provide Waggons and Horses to form a 
Provision Train sufficient to supply the Army on an intended 
forward move, which Sir William Erskine saved no pains to 
execute. 

In the Month of June following a great number of small 
Craft and Horse Vessels were employed to carry the Horses and 
Waggons, belonging to the Provision Train, Staff Officers and 
different Corps, upon the Expedition from New York up the 
Chesapeak to the head of Elk. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 73 

After the arrival of the Troops at Philadelphia, the Pro- 
vision Train was further compleated to answer the exigencies of 
the Army for the opening of the next Campaign, which was in 
every respect in good order at the time His Excellency Sir 
Henry Clinton took the Command. 

It therefore appears that the heavy expences attending a 
large Provision Train &c &c and the encrease of small Craft 
were only incurred for about twelve Months during the period 
mentioned while His Excellency Sir William Howe commanded 
the Army. Likewise that the expenditure of the Departments 
were higher at the period when His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton 
took the Command than they had been from the Commencement 
of the War, The expences from the 1st April 1778 were like- 
wise defrayed by Warrants granted by His Excellency Sir Henry 
Clinton besides Bat and Forage Money granted to the Troops 
at New York for 1777 which could not be brought into account 
before Sir WiUiam Howe left the Command. 

We are therefore convinced that a very large sum of money 
was paid by W^arrants granted by His Excellency Sir Henry 
CUnton for expences incurred, not only in this Department but 
in several Departments of the Army during Sir William Howe's 
Command. 

Several extraordinary expences were since that time incurred 
which has caused a considerable encrease such as building Gun 
Boats and Batteaux to replace the EngUsh Flat bottomed Boats 
worn out in the service the Navy not being able to furnish a 
sufficiency of Armed Vessels & Express Vessels, a number have 
been fitted out and taken into the service which caused a very 
heavy expence; Guns and other Articles furnished for Armed 
Boats. 

The extraordinary expence incurred in fitting out the several 
Expeditions, occasions an encrease of Craft and Armed Vessels. 
The purchasing Stores to be sent with them, also the pay of 
Clerks, Storekeepers and Artificers retained for these extraor- 
dinary Services, and the great additional expence always at- 
tending the taking possession of every Post. 

The purchasing Horses for the mounted Light Infantry, 
Hessian Yagers & Provincial Cavalry also sadlery and Accoutre- 
ments for the mounted Light Infantry and Jagers, the building 



74 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

and repairing of Hutts for the Troops Cantooned, the supply of 
Waggons & Horses &c for the British Regiments that arrived in 
1779 from Europe, as well as the Garrison from Rhode Island. 
The Flank Companies from Halifax; and the supply of those 
Articles for Provincial Corps raised within the last three Years. 

The Quarter Master General having been always upon the 
spot until the 26th August 1780 he of course communicated with 
his Excellency the Commander in Chief relating to the affairs 
of the Department. 

Your Excellency has before you a Copy of Instructions left 
us by Brigadier General Dalyrmple when he left this to go to 
Europe, which with other papers laid before you from time to 
time relative to the Department we beg leave to refer you to. 

We have punctually adhered to these instructions without 
presuming to deviate in the smallest degree from them, and have 
not added or retrenched any article of supply but as ordered. 
We have the honor to be &c &c &c 

Henry Bruen 
Arch"? Roberton 



His Excellency 

Lieut Gen^ Robertson 
&c &c &c 

Also read Major Bruen and Major Robertson's letter of 17th 
instant as follows: — 

New York 17th August 1781. 
Sir:— 

In consequence of the conversation Major Bruen had the 
honor to be a witness to on the 14th instant before the Board of 
General Officers of which your Excellency is president which he 
communicated to Major Robertson, they have the honor to lay 
before you and the other Gentlemen of that Board the following 
account of the Quarter Master General's Department as far as is 
consistent with their knowledge both before and since they have 
had the honor of serving in it. 

With respect to the mode pursued for the supply of the 
Waggons & Horses contracted for the use of the Army we 
understand that Lieut Colonel Sherriff who was the principal in 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 75 

the Department in 1775 and the greatest part of 1776 was 
ordered by the then Commanders m Chief to supply those 
Articles for the Army as circumstances required by hiring them 
at a daily hire according to the usual prices of the Country they 
were had in. 

Sir William Erskine was appointed Qu' M^ General in Sep- 
tember 1776 but did not enter into this part of the business of 
his Department 'till 1st Janu^ 1777 when having received the 
Commander in Chief's Instructions to pursue the same mode as 
was customary by hiring what Horses and Waggons &c he 
should find necessary for the transportation of the Army's Pro- 
visions, Stores, Baggage, Artillery, Ammunition, &c which he 
was to procure from the Country at a daily hire as Lieut Colonel 
Sheriff his Predecessor had done. 

Sir William Erskine did employ a number accordingly, which 
with, a few Horses and Waggons of a Provision train sent from 
England under the Inspection of Mr Francis R. Clarke, he 
endeavored to carry on the business of the Army. But when it 
was in contemplation to make a forward move in March follow- 
ing the Train as it then stood was found insufficient by reason 
of the Country people not chusing to follow the Army, and their 
unwillingness to serve Government. 

The Waggons sent from England were found to be totally 
unfit for the Country being too heavy and made of bad materials, 
the Horses were reduced (what with those taken by the Enemy 
and those lost by Disorders contracted during their passage 
from England which they never recovered of) to a small number, 
these circumstances obliged Sir William Erskine to lay their 
state before the Commander in Chief, proposing a plan same 
time for the better establishing a Train that would be equal to 
the exigencies of the service by purchasing Waggons and Horses 
on Government Account, which His Excellency did not think 
proper to agree to, by reason of the recent example given of 
those under Mr Clarke which cost Government upwards of 
£100000 Sterling without performing hardly a days duty. He 
said that that mode would lead to such expences as never could 
be ascertained. 

His Excellency was therefore pleased to order Sir Will'" 
Erskine to take that Branch under the immediate care and 



76 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

management of his own Department, and directed him to pursue 
the same plan as was customary for all Qr Master Generals in 
this Country to do, by taking, Drivers, Horses and Waggons 
into the Service at a daily hire according to the rates that were 
then estabUshed, indemnifying the Proprietors for their Horses 
and Waggons in case of their being lost at Sea or taken or 
destroyed by the Enemy according to their Value, should he 
find the same inconvenience continue by the backwardness of 
the Country People to serve, he should fall upon every method 
possible, by contracting with one or more men to furnish the 
number required. 

Sir William Erskine accordingly set about establishing a 
Train which was done so effectually as not to cause any dis- 
appointment to the movement of the Troops, as we humbly 
conceive will be acknowleged by the Army at large. 

And this we chiefly ascribe to those who were employed to 
purchase the best Horses and the best kind of Carriages that 
could be had in the Country. There was no expence spared to 
effect this. And by the uncommon pains labour and attention 
paid to those particulars, and by their having an interest in the 
property of those Horses & Waggons they naturally took every 
care of them, they have been in constant readiness to attend the 
movements and duty of the Army, besides giving assistance to 
the several Departments Viz', to the Engineer's in bawling 
materials for the construction of Fortifications and Works in 
those Islands, the transportation and collecting of Provisions, 
Forage and Fuel for the Commissary and Barrack Master 
General's Magaziness and the Carriage of those Provisions, 
Forage and Fuel to the different Quarters, Cantonments & 
Encampments of the Army. Likewise the bawling of Materials 
for the Building of Barracks and Hutts. The Various duties 
attending on the Hospitals of the Army and Navy. The 
Pontoon Train for the Carriage of Boats and Materials for 
constructing of Bridges. The supply of the Ship Yard in bawl- 
ing of Lumber from distant places for the building and repair- 
ing of armed Brigs, Sloops, Row Gallies, Flat Boats, Batteaux, 
Whaleboats, Barges, Scows and Flats the fitting of Births in 
Transports and Horse Vessels. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 77 

Add to these that there are a Number of Horses constantly 
attached to the German Artillery as also a number employed 
carrying Expresses the mounting of Guides and Conductors 
and the transportation of Field Forges. 

We presume to say there never was a supply of such magni- 
tude better or more effectually complyed with or better arranged 
than the Train of this Army, nor can we conceive a more 
Oeconomical plan could have been adopted on the part of 
Government. 

And tho' the exigencies of the service in this District did not 
require so large a Train constantly in the Field, they have been 
at all times usefully employed. 

To refer to one instance, we beg to call to mind the situation 
of this Garrison in point of Fuel in the Winter 1779 and 80, 
when not only the lives of the soldiery but also a number of the 
Inhabitants were saved, by the exertions of this Train in the 
Collecting and transporting of Fuel under Major Savage D^ 
Q^ M^ General who conducted it. 

We now beg leave to say a few words respecting a paper laid 
before the Board of General Officers, which they were pleased to 
show Major Bruen; stating the Hire of Vessels, Horses and 
Waggons in our Department, drawing a comparison between the 
first cost of those articles and the Hire, in which it is asserted 
that a saving to an amazing amount might be made for Gov- 
ernment. We cannot help saying that, on a full consideration 
of the contents of that paper, we believe the Author to be greatly 
misinformed, and that we shall be able to show that his calcu- 
lations are not grounded upon deliberate or solid principles. 

We find ourselves exceedingly hurt by the insinuations and 
inuendoes so thrown out, as well on account of our own Charac- 
ters as of the Gentlemen from whom we received the charge of 
the Qu- M- General's Department, whom we conceive had 
digested every matter with propriety & consistent with that 
duty they owe their Country and their own honor. We have 
not deviated in the smallest degree from the Instructions given 
in writing from time to time for the rule of our conduct, in the 
great & important trust reposed in us. On the contrary have 
invariably pursued every measure as originally laid down & 



78 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

always practised in the Department which we conceive to be 
upon the most oeconomical plan for Government & the good of 
the service. 

From the experience we have had we are certain that upon a 
candid, clear and circumspect enquiry into the Business at 
large, it will be found it is carried on with uprightness and Zeal, 
and that there is not any measure pursued that can lead to such 
superfluous expences as is insinuated. 

We imderstand that it is supposed a number of Horses, 
Waggons and Materials for Repairs are charged to Government 
exclusive of their hire, which is not the case as the publick 
accounts of the Department can ascertain; the only charges 
found for Horses and Waggons were to replace those lost on 
the Expedition in 1777 to the Southward, amounting to about 
£6000 Sterling. There has not been a shilling charged other- 
wise for the Train but the daily hire. 

We are conversant in the Accounts of the Contractors for 
Vessels, Seamen, Drivers, Horses and Waggons, which are the 
great Articles of expence. We can prove to demonstration that 
in many instances there is a loss on the difference of the hire and 
outfits. And that if the Contractors had not an indulgence in 
some particulars it would not be worth their while to undertake 
so arduous and laborious a business or run the risk of so great a 
sum of money as they have engaged. 

The expences incurred by the loss of Horses & purchasing 
materials for the repairs of the Train Yearly are immense, and 
can be ascertained by Certificates of the death of Horses, the 
Vouchers of those bought to replace them, and for the lumber. 
Plank, Iron, Cordage, Harness and Collar maker's Bills, and 
other materials which have been purchased by the Contractors 
from time to time from different Merchants in England, this 
Town and Neighbourhood. 

However as we do not pretend to infalibility and as we may 
be mistaken, we are ready to submit to better judgment and 
adopt any mode pointed out for the Interest of Government. 
And we beg leave to assure your Excellency and the Gentlemen 
composing the Board, that there are no Men will more chear- 
fully submit in taking up and pursuing such ideas as may be 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 79 

pointed out for the entrenching of publick expences & whatever 
else may tend to the good of the service. 

Should it be thought best that those Articles of supply be 
purchased for Government in preference to the present mode of 
hiring them. We are authorized to say that the greater part of 
the Contractors will be glad to dispose of their property upon a 
fair and reasonable valuation. 

Whatever plan may be found most consistent and eligible 
for the good of the Service shall be attended to with diligence & 
fidelity. And whenever we are commanded there shall be no 
time lost in carrying it into execution. 

We have the honor to be &c &c 

Henry Bruen 
Arch.'' Robertson 

His Excellency 

Lieut General Robertson. 

Then proceed to examine the Papers laid before us by 
Major Drummond. 

Agreed to order a Muster of all Vessels and Men in the 
several Military Departments in Government Pay & that 
Colonel George Turnbull and Captain Chads be appointed with 
the assistance of one of the Gentlemen of the Navy Yard to be 
named by the Commodore to execute the same; in order thereto 
the following Letters wrote Colo Turnbull and Captain Chads. 

New York 20th August 1781 
Sir:— 

The Board are directed by the Commander in Chief to 
enquire into the state of publick Expenditures and to apply to 
any Officer in the King's Service for information and assistance 
in this examination. It appearing necessary that an exact 
State of all Vessels employed in Military service be laid before 
them. The Board desires that you with Colonel Turnbull and 
Mr Provo Walhs of the Navy Yard do make this Examination 
taking an exact account of the state and condition of the 
Vessels and of the number of Men on board of each, signifjdng 
how long they have been employed; and that you will be so 



80 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

good as make a Return of the whole as soon as possible for which 
purpose you will please call at His Excellency General Robert- 
sons on Friday next at 12 o'clock to receive such further in- 
structions as may be thought necessary. 
By order of the Board 
A. Stewart 

Secy to the Board. 

Agreed to write the different Departments as follows: — 

New York 20th August 1781. 
Sir:— 

The Board have desired me to inform you that it is their 
wish to have a Muster taken on Sunday next of all Vessels, 
Drivers, Horses and Waggons employed in your Department, 
also all Labourers and artificers & that you will be so good as 
give in a Return by Friday next of the places where they may be 
seen without calling them off from Duty where the Muster 
Masters will attend. 

By order of the Board 

I have the Honor to be &c &c 
A. Stewart Secy 

to the Board. 

Q' M' GenP Departm*. 
Barr^^ M'- Genl' Departm* 
Commy Genl- Departm\ 
Engineer Departm^ 

Then the Board Adjourned 'till Friday at 10 o'clock. 

Friday 24th August 1781. 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Monday. 
Present 

His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 

Lieut. General Campbell 

Brig'' General the Earl of Lincobi 

Brigard."^ General Birch 

The Hon^ie Andrew Elliot ] 

& [ Esq" 

The Hon*^'« Henry White J 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 81 

Read Captain Mercer's Return of the places where the 
Vessels, Horses, Waggons, Carts, Artificers, Labourers &c of 
the Engineer's Department are to be seen, Vizt. 

{Half page blank in the original return not given.) 

Received and read Mr Wier's letter of the 22nd instant in 
answer to that of the 14th instant as follows: 

New York 22nd of August 1781 
Sir: — 

My ill health has 'till now prevented my acknowledging the 
Receipt of a letter of the 14th instant wrote by the order of the 
Board of General Officers, of which your Excellency is president, 
and so far as relates to the encrease of expence in the Depart- 
ment which I have the honor to superintend since the 14th of 
May 1778, I have to offer the following reasons. From the 
13th December 1775 to August 1776 the Army consisted of 
about 6000 men only, and during that time little or no pro- 
visions were purchased in this Country, and till June 1776 the 
time the Army sailed from Halifax for New York there was no 
regular allowance of Rum to the soldiers and for two years after 
this indulgence was granted this Article which has since become 
the most considerable expence, was furnished by Contracts 
made and paid in England, and which as the money was not 
received from the Military Chest here, does not appear among 
the expences of the army; that from the arrival of the Troops 
at Staten Island 1776 to their return from Philadelphia in July 
1778 our supplies were regularly sent from Europe and no 
provisions were procured here except fresh Meat, that since that 
time our supplies have been very irregular and our stores 
reduced to the lowest ebb so that we have several times been 
obliged to purchase very large quantities of all kinds of Pro- 
visions at an advanced price, and to a very large amount and 
without which the Army must absolutely have starved, an 
account also of which, for the better information of the Board, 
I have now the honor to inclose. For the fresh provisions also 
we have for these three years past been obliged to pay at least 
three times the price it cost before that time. The much more 
extended situation of the Army for more than two years past 
has likewise required an encreased number of persons, in the 
Lines of Assistants, Clerks, Labourers &c and whenever a new 



82 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Post has been taken, has ever became an additional expence to 
Government. I am also to mention the additional number of 
Horses now foraged and the encreased price (nearly double) 
paid for Forage since 1778 as well as the encrease of expence in 
bringing it to the Magazines by Land Carriage for more than one 
hundred Miles, as since the evacuation of Rhode Island it has 
been impossible to send vessels any distance up the sound. 
I am also not to pass unnoticed the expence of Vessel hire 
which was very considerable, and till the year 1777 paid by the 



Enclosure 

Account of Extraordinaries paid for in the Commissary 

1778 Rum 

June 1st to Dec 31st 170119 Gallons 

1779 569109 

1780 643828 

1781 to June 30 211719 



1595775 



1778 Bread & Flour Wheat 

May 25 to Dec 31 7335 C* W* 

1779 266 2029Bushells 

1780 35047 



42648 2029 



1778 Rice 

September 11066 C» W* 

1779 1147 

1780 8747 



20960 

1778 Beef and Pork 

October 300 bbs 1949 

1779 514 3035 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



83 



Qu- Master General all which considered with the building New 
Stores and Warehouses, the encreased price of Lumber & re- 
pairing of old ones will point out to the Board the reason of the 
encrease of expence in my Department since the 14th of May 
1778. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 

Daniel Wier. 
His Excellency 

Lieut. General Robertson. 



General's Departm* since 14th May 1778 Dollars at 4/8 



Ster» Doll« at 4/8 

£31707 19 6 

133266 9 5 

152878 3 3 

41720 14 



Amount 



£9281 3 1 

1471 5 8 

57087 17 9 



£9055 14 5 

844 10 6 

4993 7 10 



359573 6 



67840 



14893 12 



£19567 13 2 
22604 9 6 



84 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

1780 3150 491 



3964 



5475 



1778 Butter 

Decemb 31 344 Firkins 

1779 1702 

1780 2297 



4343 



1778 May to July Paid by Peter Paumier for Rum, Beef, Pork, 

Rice, Butter &c 

-.jjQ n t f -^^^^ ^^ Gillam Butler for Provisions &c for 
"NT fMh 177Q 1 ^^^ ®^ ^^^ Majesty's Army in the Provinces 

I of Georgia and South Carolina 

177Q M 9^i \ ^^^^ ^y Pster Paumier for Provisions, &c for 
0-. i r 1 i^or. ^ use of His Majesty's Army in the Provinces 
31st July 1780 , ^ . , o ^t- ^ i- 

[of Georgia and South Laroima 



N. B. — The Extra Expences (for Provisions & Rum) in- 
included in the above. 

Enclosure 

Return of the Number of Men, Women and Children of the 
ments, Victualled at New York and the Out Posts the 20th 



No 



Men 


Women 


515 


133 


558 


68 


542 


64 


389 


103 


472 


78 


499 


61 


504 


86 


701 


110 



Children 



Royal Artillery 

1st Battahon Grenadiers. 

2d Ditto 

17th Regiment Dragoons 

22d Regiment 

37th " 

38th « 

42d " 



120 
41 
44 

67 
80 
40 

82 
67 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 

15276 7 7 

57448 10 3 



85 



£1187 13 1 
4551 6 3 
6568 18 2 

12307 17 6 

26806 10 

29524 19 113^ 

81622 15 1 10/12 

£650017 18 3 7/12 

curred in Carolina, since the surrender of Charlestown, not 



British and Foreign Regiments, New Levies and Civil Depart- 
August 1781. 



No 



Men 


Women 


509 


74 


503 


79 


396 


54 


251 


26 


312 


380 


582 


179 



Children 



9 
10 
11 

12 
13 

14 



54th « 

57 " 

Pensacola Garrison (British and 

Provincials) 

British Recruits 

Detachments of absent British 

Regiments 

Jersey Volunteers 



54 
58 

46 

22 

218 

257 



86 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Men 


Women 


333 


68 


24 


4 


157 


15 


236 


66 


170 


9 


21 


6 


182 


74 


155 


27 


305 




16 


3 


490 


145 


344 




70 




48 


29 


402 


232 


9686 


2173 



Children 



15 De Lancey's 3d Battalion 

16 Governor Wentworth's Volun- 

teers 

17 King's American Dragoons. . . . 

18 Loyal American Regiment 

19 American Legion 

20 Volunteers of New England . . . 

21 Guides and Pioneers 

22 Garrison Battalion 

23 Associated Loyalists 

24 Loyal Forresters 

25 Colonel De Lancey's Refugees. 

26 Major Ward's Ditto 

27 King and Queen's County Militia 

28 Seconded Officers 

29 Detachment of absent Provin 

cial Regiment 



134 

4 
14 
127 
11 
12 
73 
13 

2 
440 



61 
443 



2530 



Civil Departments 



No 



Men 


Women 


888 


20 


107 


27 


164 


96 


379 


157 


25 




30 


7 


524 


132 


238 


72 


205 


24 


130 


4 


19 


5 



Children 



1 General Hospitals 

2 Horse Department of Artillery 

3 Civil Branch of Ordnance 

4 Engineer's Department 

5 Bridge Master's Ditto 

6 Adjutant General's " 

7 Qur Masters " " 

8 Barrack " " 

9 Commissary " 

10 Forage " 

11 Inspectors " 



37 

25 

138 

265 

10 

105 

106 

32 

10 

5 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



87 



No 



Men 



Women 



Children 



12 Rebel Prisoners 

13 Provost Martial and British 
Prisoners 

14 Batteaux and Boatmen 

15 Refugees 

16 Pay Office 

17 Secretary's Office 

18 Muster Master 

19 Agent's Office 

20 General Officers &c &c &c . . . 



251 

103 

139 

166 

8 

10 

4 

6 

156 



3512 



196 
3 



15 



763 



10 

390 
11 



18 



1162 



Foreign Regiments 



No 



Men 


Women 


92 


7 


831 


88 


245 


33 


488 


45 


522 


42 


545 


28 


499 


30 


651 


34 


682 


29 


648 


23 


653 


26 


665 


24 


712 


24 


121 


10 


459 


20 


385 


24 


755 


65 


38 


1 



Children 



1 Hessian Artillery 

2 Hessian Yager Corps 

3 Anspach " 

4 1st Battalion Grenadiers . . 

5 2d " 

6 3d 

7 4th « 

8 Regiment Du Corps 

9 Landgrave Regiment 

10 Prince Charles " 

11 Donop's " 

12 De Losberg's " 

13 Bunau's " 

14 Brunswick Troops 

15 Combined Battalion 

16 3d Regiment of Waldeck. . 

17 Hessian Hanau Volunteers 

18 " Chasseurs 



21 

18 

14 

8 

32 

21 

19 

21 

17 

20 

1 

9 

19 

20 



88 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 




Men 


Women 


Children 


19 
?,0 


Regiment Anhalt Zerbst 

Hospital and Staff 


369 

482 

280 

124 

5 


20 
23 

71 

11 

1 


8 
34 


21 

22 
^3 


Detachments of absent Regi- 
ments 

General Officers &c &c &c . . . . 
Commissariat 


53 

8 




British 

Civil 






10251 
9686 
3552 


679 

2173 

763 


435 
2530 

1162 




Total 






23489 


3615 


4127 











Received and read Mr Wier's letter of the 22nd instant with 
Returns of the Extraordinaries paid for in the Commissary 
General's Department, with the Returns of the places where 
the Vessels, Horses, Waggons, Carts, Artificers, Labourers, &c 
belonging to the Commissary General's Department are to be 
seen ; also an Estimate of the expence of 100 Horses for one year 
to Government as follows: — 



New York 22d August 1781. 

Sir:— 

In compliance with the requisition of the Board of General 
Officers expressed in their letter of the 15th instant, I have the 
honor to inclose to your Excellency a Return of the Rations 
issued to the Men employed in the different Departments by 
Land and Water, also to their Wives and Children; Your 
Excellency will also at this time receive a Return of the Number 
of Horses belonging to the several Departments Foraged from 
His Majesty's Magazines, and likewise an Estimate of the 
Expence to Government for one hundred Horses for a Year. 
I have the honor to be &c, &c 

Daniel Wier 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



89 



His Excellency 

Lt Gen' Robertson. 

Return of the Number of Men, Women and Children be- 
longing to the Civil Departments, Victualed at New York and 
the Out Posts— 20th August 1781. 





By Land 




Children 


By Water 




Men 


Women 


Men 


1 Quarter Master General's 
Depart 


524 

131 

335 
379 
238 


132 

28 
157 

72 


105 

42 
265 
106 


81 


2 Ditto Drivers attached 
to Corps 




3 Commissary General's 
Department 


16 


4 Engineer Department. . . 
6 Barrack Department 


7 


Total 


1607 


389 


518 


104 



New York 20th August 1781. 

Return of Horses foraged at New York and Posts dependant 
the 19th August 1781 Viz*;— 



No 



2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 



His Excellency the Command- in Chief's Guards 

and Family 

Lieutenant General KnjTphausen and Family 
Lieutenant General Robertson & " 
Lieutenant General Campbell & " 

Lieutenant General De Losberg & " 

Major General Paterson & " 

Major General Sterling 

Late Major General PhilUps and Aid de Camp 
Major General De Gosen & " 

Major General Hackenberg & " 

Major General Kospoth & " 



Horses 



59 
30 
7 
6 
10 
8 
4 
5 
6 
5 
6 



90 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 

12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
21 
22 
23 
24 
25 
26 
27 
28 
29 
30 



31 
32 
33 
34 
35 
36 
37 
38 

39 
40 
41 
42 
43 



Major General Bischausen & Aid de Camp 

Major General Wurmb 

Colonel Cockenhausen 

Brigadier General Birch 

Brigad^ General the Earl of Lincoln 

Brigadier General Arnold 

Brigadier General De Lancey 

Brigadier General Skinner 

Adjutant General's Department 

Secretary to the Commander in Chief 

Surveyors to Ditto 

Chaplain to the Staff 

Major Brigade Phillips 

Major Brigade Metzner (Cavalry) 

Major Brigade Moncrieff 

Major Brigade Wallop 

Town Major 

Inspector General's Department 

Muster Master General's " 

Carried forward 

Brought forward 

Major Drummond 

Pay Master General 

Pay Master General (Northern Army) 

Secretary to " 

Commissary General of Prisoners 

Provost Martial and Deputy 

Ordnance Storekeeper 

Superintend* Gen' Physicians & Surgeons of the 

Hospital 

Deputy Judge Advocate 

Commissary of Musters 

Hessian Hospital 

Lieut Colonel Cockran 

Captain Ottendorff 



Horses 



4 
3 
4 
8 
5 
6 
6 
6 
14 
2 
4 
2 
2 
4 
2 
2 
2 
6 
4 



232 



232 
1 
1 
2 
1 
3 
4 
1 

21 
3 
1 
1 

2 
1 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



91 



No 

44 
45 
46 
47 
48 
49 
50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
61 
62 
63 



Horaes 



64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 
70 
71 
72 
73 
74 
75 
76 



Lieutenant Miller 

Lieut Colonel Emmerick 

Captain Diemar 

Royal Artillery 

1st Battalion of Grenadiers 

2d " " 

1st and 2nd Battalion of Light Infantry 

Mounted Light Infantry 

7th Regiment 

17th Dragoons 

22d Regiment 

37th Regiment 

38th " 

42d " 

54th " 

57th « 

60th " 

82d « 

84th " 

Guards 

Carried forward 

Brought forward 

Hessian Artillery 

Mounted Jagers 

Dismounted " 

1st Batt'' Hessian Grenadiers 

2d " 

3d « 

4th « 

Regiment DuCorps 

Landgrave's Regiment 

Prince Charles' " 

Donop's " 

Losberg's " 

Bunau's " 



1 

3 

4 

18 

19 

15 

24 

41 

1 

324 

12 

11 

8 

11 

10 

10 

1 

4 

1 

2 

794 



794 

6 

126 

14 

12 

10 

8 

6 

7 

13 

8 

11 

10 

18 



92 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 

77 
78 
79 
80 
81 
82 
83 
84 
85 
86 
87 
88 
89 
90 
91 
92 
93 
94 
95 
96 



Horses 



97 
98 
99 
100 
101 
102 
103 
104 
105 
106 
107 
108 
109 



Combined Battalion 

Waldeck Regiment 

1st Regiment of Anspach 

2d " " 

American Legion 

King's American Dragoons 

Queen's Rangers 

West Chester Refugees 

New Jersey Volunteers 

Loyal American Regiment 

Colonel Turnbull 

DeLancey's Brigade 

Major Hanger 

Guides and Pioneers 

Lieutenant Colonel De Lancey 

British Recruits 

Governor Wentworth's Volunteers 

Colonel Axtell & King's County Militia 

Colonel Hamilton and Queen's County Militia 
Garrison Battahon 



Carried forward. 



Brought forward. 

Governor Franklin 

Lieutenant Governor Elliot . . 
Chief Justice of New York . . , 
Chief Justice of New Jersey . . 

Attorney General 

The Mayor 

Mr Cox 

Commodore Affleck 

Colonel Philipse 

Gordon & Biddulph 

Inspector of Refugees 

Naval Hospital 

Mr Thurzton 



6 

7 

3 

2 

65 

84 

60 

116 

21 

9 

1 

18 
4 
3 
2 
3 
8 
6 
4 
1 



1466 



1466 
3 
3 
3 
3 
2 
2 
1 
3 
2 
4 
1 
8 
1 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



93 



No 



110 
111 
112 
113 
114 



115 
116 



Major Fraser D^ Qur Master General. 

Bridge Master 

Quarter Master General's Department. . . . 1216) 
Attached to Gen' Officers & Corps. 603J 

Commissary General's Department including 
himself Deputies, Assistants, Collectors of 
Forage &c 

Engineer Department 

Barrack Master's Do 

Total 



Horses 



3 
4 

1819 



75 

35 

158 



3596 



N. B. — Since the above Return was finished the Officers of 
the two Provincial Regiments for Pensacola, have obtained an 
Order to draw Forage; the 40th Regiment also has since arrived 
from the West Indies. 

Estimate of the Expence of 100 Horses to Government for 
one Year. 
100 Horses 
365 Days 



36500 Rations at 14 lbs Hay and 8 lbs Oats pr Ration is 511000 
or 228 Tons 2 C* 2 Q" Hay and 292000 lbs or (at 32 lbs 
pr Bushel) 9125 Bushels Oats. 

Tons C* Q" 
228 2 2 Hay at £8 pr Ton (the estab- 
lished price) £1825 .... 

9125 Bushels Oats 7s pr Bushel (the estab- 
lished price) 3193 15 

5018 15 
Expences of Collecting Freight, Cartage, Issuing, 

Wastage &c at 50s pr C* 2509 7 6 

New York Currency. . . , £7528 2 6 
or £75 5 l]/2 pr Horse. 



94 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Gentlemen : — 

In conformity to your Request of the 20th inst, I send you a 
Waggons, Labourers and Artificers employed in my Depart- 



The Board of General 
Officers &c of which 
L* Gen* Robertson is 
President. 

Return of the places where the Drivers, Horses and Waggons, 
General's Department may be seen. 

New York 

Horses & Waggons Bridewell Yard 

Drivers & Labourers " 

Artificers ' " 

N. B. — Labourers and Artificers are encreased or Diminished 

New York 23d August 178L 

Return of Transports employed in the Barrack Master 



Vessels Names 


Tonage 


Where they are at present 


Brig Three Friends 


103 


Lloyd's Neck 


Schooner St Andrew 


97M 


u 


William 


76 


u 


York 


124 


u 


Sloop Happy Couple 


75 


u 


Peggy 


963^ 


u 


Friendship 


90 


Haerlem 


Susannah 


119 


u 


Generous Friends.. 


101 


a 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 95 

New York August 23d 1781 

Return of the places where the Vessels, Drivers, Horses, 
ment may be seen on Sunday next. 
I have the honor to be 
Gent°» 

Your most Obedient 

Humble Servant 

Wm Crosbie 
B.M.G. 



also Labourers and Artificers, employed in the Barrack Master 

New York Island Long Island 

Haerlem Lloyd's Neck 

« Do & Brooklyn 



occasionally as the Service requires. 

W"" Crosbie, 

B. M. G. 



General's Department. 






Vessels Names 


Tonage 


Where they are at present 


Schooner Hope 


1001^ 
69 
74 

87^ 

65H 
30 
50 
56 


u 


Betsey 

Mary 

Free Mason 

Friends 

Clinton 

Sloop Mohawk 

Defiance 


u 
u 

New York North River 

u 

« East River 
Narrows Long Island 

u 



New York August 23d 1781. 



W™ Crosbie 

B. M. Gen. 



96 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Received and read Major Bruen's Answer to the letter of 
the 20th instant, as follows: — 

New York 24th August 1781 
Sir:— 

I have the honor of receiving a letter from the Board of 
which your Excellency is President, dated the 20th instant, but 
not received at my Office 'till seven o'clock the following 
Evening as follows: — 

(N. B. — a repition of the letter\ 
sent him 20th instant J 

In consequence of the above, notwithstanding of the short- 
ness of the notice, I have the honor to acquaint you, that I have 
been enabled to make out Muster Rolls ascertaining the names 
of each Man, the Number of Horses, Waggons, Carts, &c 
employed in the Qur Master General's Department, which will 
be produced agreeable to the desire of the Board on Sunday 
next at the following places Viz*: — 

At the Waggon Yard belonging to the Quarter Master General 

New York 
At the Six Mile Stone on the Road to King's Bridge 
At the Qu' M- General's Waggon Yard near Fort Knyphausen 
At the Qu- M' General's Waggon Yard, Brooklyn Long Island 
At a Field near the half Way House to Jamaica Long Island 
At Lloyd's Neck Long Island 
At Paulus Hook 
At the Flag staff Staten Island & Light House Sandy Hook 

In order to prevent any possibilities of mistake you will 
be pleased to direct the Muster Masters to attend at one and 
the same hour at each given place, when Officers will attend 
from the Department with proper Muster Rolls. 

I take it for granted that tho' the above Letter mentions 
the Vessels are also to be Mustered, that the Gentlemen of the 
Board are well informed that business remains totally with the 
Agent for small Craft. 

I have the honor &c 

Henry Bruen. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 97 

His Excellency 

Lieut General Robertson. 

Received and read Colonel Crosbie's letter of the 24th 
instant, as follows 

New York 24th August 1781 
Gentlemen : — 

In the letter I did myself the honor to write you on the 15th 
instant, in answer to yours of the 14th requesting my ideas on 
the cause of encrease of Expence, so far as related to my De- 
partment from December 1775 I observed that I had no knowl- 
edge of the expence of the Department, prior to my appointment 
on the 1st July 1780, and was totally incompetent to an opinion 
on a question of such importance; But as I am solicitous to 
give you every possible information, I have since been en- 
deavouring to possess myself of such facts as may serve to 
elucidate so interesting and necessary an enquiry; and I am 
exceedingly sorry that after all my researches, I am not able 
to obtain such a knowledge of this matter as will authorize me 
to give you an opinion, so circumstantially decisive as I could 
wish. 

My Predecessor being in England leaves me without that 
information which would lead to a more perfect understanding 
of many Circumstances necessary to be known in order to form 
a adequate idea of the causes which have gradually led to the 
encrease of Expences of the Department within the period you 
allude to. 

In my enquiries I find the Troops were in Boston from the 
13th December 1775 to the 17th March 1776 under the Com- 
mand of Sir William Howe, and tho' fuel was high at that time, 
from the supplies being principally cut off by the Rebels, the 
charge to Government must, notwithstanding have been small, 
not only from the shortness of the time but from the number of 
Houses, Stores, Wharves, and Vessels, the property of persons 
in Rebellion, which were taken and given to the Troops for 
Fuel that Winter. This Army left Boston in March and went 
to Halifax, where they remained some short time, and from 
thence proceeded to Staten Island, where they waited the 
arrival of the reinforcement from England until the Month of 
August, when the troops took possession of Long Island, and 



98 PKOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

afterwards of York Island, both abounding with Wood, and 
which was obtained upon such moderate Terms that the Expence 
incurred for Fuel was in the Winter of 1776 and 77 must have 
been very inconsiderable, and which was also greatly lessened 
by the large supply of Coals received from Great Britain & 
Spanish River. The principal part of the Army was also that 
winter in the Jerseys under Lord Cornwalhs ; who were suppUed 
with Fuel by the Inhabitants, at an easy expence ; a Detachment 
was likewise sent the same Winter to Rhode Island, from 
whence a part of the Transports that carried the Troops to that 
place were immediately dispatched to the East end of Long 
Island for Wood, which with the quantity standing on the 
Island, and cut by the Troops, were sufl&cient for the exigencies 
of the Winter of 76 and 77. 

In the Month of June 1777 supplies of Candles were re- 
ceived from England which prevented any considerable expence 
for that article, and the greatest part of the Army being in the 
Winter of 77 and 78 in the City of Philadelphia they were 
supplied with Fuel upon moderate Terms, and without in- 
curring any material charge for the expense of Barrack repairs. 
The Island of New York also affording a sufficiency of Fuel for 
the Troops at Fort Knyphausen and its Dependencies in 77 and 
78 and which being obtained with Facihty & cheapness, the 
expence for that District was then comparatively small to what 
has been since experienced. 

To the year 1778 fuel for the Troops in New York and on 
York Island was obtained at the average price of about 35/ a 
Cord, and the repairs of Barracks and Officers Quarters was also 
inconsiderable, as the houses occupied by the Troops were 
principally in tolerable order, and required but a small expence 
to make them suitable for the reception of the Troops when 
in Winter Quarters. 

Barrack Bedding was also principally had from Great 
Britain to the year 1778 as well as large quantities of Coal and 
Candles, all which contributed very essentially to lessen the 
grants of PubUck Money to that period. 

From the best information which I have been able to pro- 
cure upon a subject of such consequence, you have my ideas of 
the general causes that have contributed to render the expences 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 99 

of the Department to the Year 1778 much less than they have 
been since that time; and I must also observe that the accounts 
of the different Departments not being closed, Nor the expences 
to May 1778 collected and ascertained particularly a very large 
proportion of the Barrack Department in Philadelphia, they 
could not possibly be brought into any account to that period, 
and were therefore defrayed out of the Monies granted by Sir 
Henry Clinton, and which contributed very materially to the 
apparent smallness of the expenditure of the public Monies 
prior to his Command. 

I will now attempt to throw some light upon the other part 
of your question "the encrease of the publick Expence since 
May 1778." Here I find myself labouring under the same 
difficulties, the want of a competent knowledge of the trans- 
actions prior to my appointment however as it is my inclination 
that you should derive from me every information I will offer 
you my opinion upon that subject with as much precision as is 
in my power. 

The wood on Rhode Island being all cut down & the means 
of supplying the Garrison with Fuel exceedingly difficult it 
became necessary for the Barrack Master there to hire a number 
of small Vessels into the service of Government, and send them 
to the East end of Long Island, and even as far as Lloyd's Neck 
within 50 Miles of New York for Wood, which, with the repairs 
of Barracks and other Houses occupied by the Troops two 
Winters, and fallen into a ruinous state, enhanced the publick 
expence to a very considerable sum. 

In 1779 similar efforts were made by the Barrack Master of 
that Garrison to obtain Fuel, which with one thousand chal- 
drons of Coals, equal to three thousand Cords of Wood, sent 
that summer from England and New York, and a large quantity 
of Wood and Peat, collected and formed into Magazines, at an 
enormous expence fell into the Rebels hands, thro' the want of 
Transports upon the evacuation of that Island. This Army 
came to New York & the publick expence was thereby en- 
creased in a proportion much greater than the Value of the Fuel 
left at Rhode Island; and the Vessels that had been hired into 
the service of Government there, were also necessarily retained 
in the pay of the Crown for the purpose of bringing Wood to this 



100 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

City from the different parts of Long Island; but the Winter 
commenced so uncommonly early, and the weather was so 
intensely severe that these with others in the Department, were 
soon froze up, loaded with Wood, and continued in that situa- 
tion for upwards of three Months, at the expence of Government . 

In the same Year neither Barrack Bedding nor Candles were 
received from England for the Troops, which contributed to 
encrease the publick Expence, as the service from this omission 
made it necessary to purchase very large quantities of both 
these articles at an advanced price in New York. 

The Barracks, Regimental Hospital, Store houses, Guard 
houses, and other Buildings in New York having from being 
occupied two Winters, fallen into ruin, very large and extensive 
repairs were absolutely necessary for the Accommodation of 
the Troops; which from the encreased price of Lumber, Car- 
penter's Wages, &c has occasioned a very heavy and additional 
expence to Government; and, enormous as it may appear, I am 
concerned to observe from the Ruin and Waste committed by 
the soldiers upon the Barracks, when in Winter Quarters, that 
expensive repairs are constantly necessary. 

Since the Army evacuated Philadelphia & Rhode Island, the 
issues of Fuel in New York from an additional number of 
Refugees and other distressed Loyalists accompanying the Army, 
has encreased near one half; and consequently from the advanced 
price of Fuel in New York is one of the principal causes that 
the pubUck expence appears much higher than in the early 
period of the RebeUion. 

The taking possession of New Posts is also another reason 
of the encrease of the pubUck Expence of my Department. In 
the Year 1778, we had only New York and its Vicinity, Rhode 
Island, and to the Month of May the City of Philadelphia; 
since that time Garrisons have been established in St. John's 
Island, Penobscot, Savannah, Augusta, Bermuda, Charles 
Town, Cambden, Portsmouth, &c all which occasions an 
additional expence in my, as well as the other Departments, 
for a variety of charges, not incurred, when the Army is in a 
more compact State. 

I have already observed that to the Winter of 77 & 78 Wood 
was purchased at a moderate price, and with the quantities 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 101 

procured from Rebel Estates, I believe did not cost Government, 
upon an average above 35/ pr Cord. Since that time from its 
being all cut down on York Island, and great part of that on 
Long Island contiguous to the landings in the same situation 
the price to Government encreased so rapidly that in July 1780, 
I found upon my appointment the price from 75/ to 80/ pr 
Cord. Upon Long Island and Staten Island, the rise of Fuel 
has been nearly in the same proportion. This circumstance 
alone will reconcile in a great measure the difference that 
appears in the publick Expence, between the periods you men- 
tion; and when I inform you that 48000 Cords of Wood have 
been issued to the Troop, Refugees and Loyalists in New York 
and its Dependencies in the course of twelve Months, it will 
account for the largeness of the sums granted by the Comm' 
in Chief to defray the expence of the Barrack Departm*. But 
when the facts I have suggested, respecting the Extraordinary 
repairs of the Barracks, purchasing of Bedding, Furniture and 
Candles in New York, the encrease of Posts & the appropria- 
tion of very large sums, granted by Sir Henry Clinton to defray 
the arrearages of the Department during Sir WiUiam Howe's 
Command, are taken into consideration without attending to 
many other Circumstances of less consequence to Government, 
I cannot but flatter my self that the great excess of the Warrants 
in the last period you mention will in some measure be accounted 
for, and the encrease of expences, so far as relates to my Depart- 
ment, satisfactorily explained; and if my ideas upon this 
occasion should appear well founded, and throw any light upon 
the very interesting enquiry you are engaged in I shall feel 
myself ex,ceedingly happy in having this opportunity of assist- 
ing you in so compUcated and difficult a Business. 

I will now beg leave to enter upon my own transactions from 
July 1780, and which may serve to explain the largeness of the 
grants that have been made by the Commander in Chief in my 
favour, I have already observed that 48000 Cords of wood are 
expended in New York and its Dependencies in the course of 12 
Months. This purchased at double the price that was formerly 
paid, amounts to a very serious sum, and amply proves, that the 
encreased expence of the Department, is founded on absolute 
necessity. The Article of Fuel now Constitutes a principal 



102 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

part of the expence of my Department, which from the en- 
creasing scarcity on Long Island, as well as the other places from 
whence it is obtained, is almost daily enhancing in its value, — 
and for the approaching Winter 50/ a Cord will be paid at 
Jamaica, Flushing &c, where the last Year the price was only 
36/. On Staten Island it is also encreased from 42/ to 60/ a Cord. 

Colo Clerk, my predecessor, not having received for several 
years before he retired, either Blankets, Candles or any other 
Articles from Great Britain, the quantity of Bedding and 
Barrack furniture, transferred by him, and fit for service, was 
very inconsiderable. From this circumstance, I was under the 
necessity of representing to the Commander in Chief the situa- 
tion of the Barrack Stores, and to request a survey, upon which 
11700 Blankets and Rugs, with other Articles were condemned 
as worn out and unfit to be issued to the Troops. To supply 
this deflSciency was difficult, however, I was so fortunate to 
purchase such a quantity that with 4000 I borrowed of the 
Inspector General, and which I still owe him, as to furnish the 
Troops, not only in New York, but in the Southern District, a 
sufficiency for the Winter. 

The Ruinous situation of the Barracks, and every other 
Building held by Government for that purpose, demanded my 
particular attention. I foresaw the difficulty as well as the 
greatness of the Expence that would attend the business, and 
in order to have the clearest information of what was necessary 
to be done for the Accommodation of the Troops, I caused a 
survey to be made by Persons acquainted with such matters, 
who reported that very large repairs were absolutely wanted to 
make them barely tenantable thro' the winter; and that from 
the encreasing price of Lumber, and every other Material, it 
was scarcely possible to ascertain the expence. These Buildings 
have been held by Government from 1776, and from the length 
of time they have been occupied, the carelessness of the Soldiers, 
and the too little attention paid to their preservation, require 
frequent repairs, and make a number of Carpenters and other 
Artificers constantly necessary to prevent them from falling 
into total decay. 

Alarmed at the greatness of the Expence, attending the 
purchase of Candles and Barrack Bedding in this City, I have 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 103 

made a requisition for Blankets, Candles, &c to be sent from 
Great Britain for re-supplying the Army the ensuing Winter; 
and it will not be improper upon this occasion to observe that 
a heavy annual charge is brought upon the Crown from the 
great number of Blankets not returned by the Regiments when 
they take the Field, and also from the ruined and useless state 
of a considerable part of those they do Return. 

It gives me real concern that the exigencies of the King's 
Service has made such large Disbursements necessary, and 
which so far as respects the Article of Fuel will unavoidably 
continue to encrease, unless a supply of Coals can be procured to 
diminish the consumption of Wood; and here permit me to 
assure you, were it not for the exertions of the Refugees under 
Major Ward and Captain Harding at Bergen Point, who have 
received from the Commander in Chief, every encouragement 
to persevere in this business, and to whom I pay ten Dollars a 
Cord, I could not, from any other resource, that I have knowl- 
edge of, carry the Army thro' half the approaching Winter 
Weeks. 

As I shall feel myself happy in explaining any matters falling 
within my own knowledge, you may be assured, I will readily 
contribute as far as in my power, to facilitate the arduous 
business you are engaged in, and to adopt any Oeconomical plan 
which upon mature consideration may be devised and will not 
in its consequences prove injurious & detrimental by impeding 
the service, and thereby bring on a greater Evil than it is in- 
tended to remedy. 

With the greatest respect I have the honor to be 
Gentlemen &c &c 

Wm Crosbie 
To the Board of General B. M. G. 

Officers &c to which his 
Excellency Lieut General 
Robertson is President. 

The Board adjourned 'till Wednesday next at 10 o'clock. 

Wednesday 29th August 1781. 
Agreeable to Adjournment last Friday, attended for the 
meeting of the Board. 



104 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

His Excellency General Robertson reported that the prin- 
cipal part of the Board being engaged on the King's Service no 
business could be entered upon. But on Friday next the Board 
will meet. 

Friday 31st August 1781. 

The Board met agreeable to adjournment last Wednesday. 

Present — 

His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Lieutenant General Campbell 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Honorable Henry White Esquire. 

The Papers of Musters which were ordered to be taken of 
the different Departments not being yet come in, the Board 



Return of Drivers, Horses and Waggons belonging to the 
and Staff Officers and Several Corps of Hessians in the District 

Drivers Names 



Jacob Saur 

John Saur 

Conrad Fenner 

John Gunderlach 

Theodorus Dorstenburg. 

John Nolte 

John Gabriel 

Nicholas Brown 

John Morgan 

George Gandelach 

George Charles 

John Rhibein 

Martin Demme 

Jacob Rehres 

Conradt Schrader 

Lorentz Stief ell 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 105 

adjourned themselves to Monday next the 3d of Sep- 
tember. 

Monday 3d September 1781. 

The Board met agreeable to adjournment last Wednesday. 

Present 

His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Honorable Andrew Elliot] 

& ^ Esq" 

The Honourable Henry Whitej 

Examined the Returns which had been taken of the Quarter 
Master General's Waggons, Horses, Drivers, Artificers &c as 
follows : — 



Quart. Master General's Department attached to the General 
of New York.— 26th August 1781. 



To whom attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


Lieut General Kuphuysen 
Staff and Suite 

Major General Kospoth 


2 

2 


26 

4 
4 


12 


u 

Major General DeHackenberg 

u 


2 
2 



106 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



George Olerwein . . . 
Conradt Keiche — 
George Schneider. . 
Jacob Summimin . . 
Johannis Hupfeld.. 

Adam Moller 

Christ. Haubauld... 
Johannis Wierning. 

Melchier Zeugh 

Jost. Osthewm 

Justus Krug 

Philip Fisher 

Johanis Schreiner. . 
Christoph Schmidt. 

John Graff 

Anton Frederick . . . 
Henrich Fredler — 
Christoph Bete . . . . 

Adam Braun 

Henry Graling 

Henry Shultz 

John Henning 



George Kebig 

George Spaun 

George Schebrumsit. 
John Sumberger . . . . 

Adam Otto 

John Florey 

Dederick Siebalt 

George Shultz 

Daniel Groskurl 

John Jost Hesse . . . . 



Drivers Names 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 107 



To whom attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


Major General DeWurmb 

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4 


2 


Major General DeBischausen .... 
u 


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4 


2 


Lt Colo Eitell's Artillery 


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23 


4 


Regt Du Corps for Baggage .... 


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12 


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Ditto for their Artillery 


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16 


1 


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7 


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Ditto for their Artillery 


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Carried forward 


38 


118 


39 


Brought forward 

Regt Prince Charles & Baggage . . 
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38 


118 


39 


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12 


6 


a 

Ditto for their Artillery 

Regt Bunau for Baggage 

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15 


1 


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108 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Drivers Names 



Conradt Pf ur 

Caspur Zohrbeich 

Nicholas Farnbach — 

Casper Ursprung 

John Jeckell 

David Mohr 

Christoph Hill 

Adam Schabacker 

Peter Saur 

Christoph Hasselhujoi. 
John Mohr 



I do certify that the above named fifty nine Drivers per- 
ber of Horses & Waggons amounting to one hundred and eighty 
and were Mustered by me this day at New York as above 
Chief's Orders, and that the said Number of Horses appear to 
are to the best of my judgment in good and serviceable order. 



Return of Waggon Masters, Conductors, Clerks, Store- 
ers in the Quart- Master General's Department in the District 

Oliver Bourdett Waggon Master General 

Conductors 

Hugh Hugh 
Benjamin Sterns 
John Granger 
Thomas McManus 
Daniel Hammel 
Richard Cockran 
WilUam Montcrief 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



109 



To whom attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


u 
u 
a 

Ditto for their Artillery 

Combined Battalion 


6 
1 

' 5 

2 


12 
13 
10 

4 


6 
1 


u 




u 


5 


u 




a 




Hessian Hospital 




u 


2 






Total 


59 


184 


60 



Oliver Bourdett 

Waggon M- General 

sonally appeared before me this day, and that the above num- 
four Horses and Sixty Waggons have also appeared before me, 
mentioned, Pm-suant to His Excellency the Commander In 
be perfectly serviceable and the Waggons with their Harness 

J. Welch Qu^ M- 17th Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Muster. 

keepers, Carpenters, Blacksmiths, Harness Makers and Labour- 
of New York 26th August 1781. 

Clerks 

Hugh Cairns 

Samuel Bayard 

States M. Dyckman 

George West 
Storekeepers 

Abraham Fridell, Storekeeper 

John J. Cluett, Asst 

James Molloy 

Richard Newton 



no 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Carpenters 

Jos. Martin, Foreman 
William McLeod 
John Leacb 
Eneas Roberts 
Charles Dixon 
David Jones 

Blacksmiths 

John Fox, Foreman 
Patrick Duffy 
Frederick Seaburn 
Henry Bonta 
Charles Ferguson 
Alexander Sinclair 



I do certify that the within mentioned Waggon Master 
Six Carpenters, twelve Blacksmiths, two Harness Makers, and 
and were Mustered by me at New York as within mentioned 



Return of Conductors, Carpenters, Blacksmiths, Drivers, 
partment in the District of Staten Island. 

26th August 1781. 



Men's Names 



To Whom Attached 



Henry Hay 

Samuel Ingle — 
Peter Paterson . . 
John Goldin .... 
Peter Young. . . . 
Nicholas Prickle. 



Carpenters . . 
Blacksmiths . 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 111 

William Ford 
Robert Clarke 
Jacob Howard 
Sipp Jordan 
John Howard 
Robert Conday 

Harness Makers 
Robert Carr 
David Jones 

Labourers 

John Nowland 
Thomas Nowland 
William Stephney 

Oliver Bourdett, W M^ Gen' 

General, Seven Conductors, four clerks, four Storekeepers, 
three Labourers, have personally appeared before me this day 
pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in Chief's orders. 

J. Welch, Qu^ M- 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Muster. 



Horses, Waggons &c in the Quarter Master General's De- 













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112 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Men's Names 


To Whom Attached 


Solomon Brogan 

Henry Herb 

Peter George 

Richard Marpole 

George Ward 

William Morris 




David Overdorf 


Drivers 


William Dixon 




Sippio Conyer 

King Fair 

Pompey Wilson 




John Lutkins 

John Mouder 


Brigadier General Skinner 


John Sprowles 

Richard Myers >■ 

Stephen Stigby 

James Appleby 


1st Batt New Jersey Volunteers. 


Luke Appleby \ 


4th Batt Ditto 


James Myers 




Cuffe a Negro 

John Cronk ] 

William Neilson )■ 


Stewart's Troop of Guides & 
Expresses mounted by the 
Quarter Master General 

Loyal American Regiment 


John Prince 




William Kennedy 


Attending the post at Sandy Hook 




Total 



I do Certify that the above named two Conductors, two 
sonally appeared before me this day and that the above Number 
large Waggons and fourteen small waggons have also appeared 
as above mentioned, pursuant to His Excellency the Commander 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 113 













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24 


85 


10 


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Carpenters, two Blacksmiths and twenty four Drivers per- 
of Horses and Waggons amounting to Eighty five Horses, ten 
before me and were Mustered by me this day at Staten Island 
in Chief's Orders, and that the said Number of Drivers, Horses 



114 PKOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

& Waggons (allowing one Driver two Horses & one Waggon on 
missing with the Loy* Am. Regt one Horse at Grass, and one 
perfectly ^l^serviceable, and that the Waggons &c with their 
Order. 



Return of Drivers, Horses and Waggons attached to the 
August 1781. 

Drivers Names 



Lewis Pameter 

Thomas Brown 

Richard Hallum 

Isaac Morgan 

Thomas Hockaday . . . 

John Hunter 

James Pierson 

James Mitchel 

Alexander Mackenzie. 

John Hanover 

Donald McLeod 

Thomas Cameron 

George Peebles 

WilUam Arnot 

Alexander Smith 

William Turnbull.... 

Daniel McKoy 

Henry McKoy 

Murdock McLeod 

John Hutchinson 

William Edinton 



OF THE BKITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 115 

Duty at Sandy Hook, one Driver two Horses & one Waggon 
on duty belonging to Captain Stewart's Troop) appear to be 
Harness are to the best of my judgment in good and serviceable 

J. Welch, Qu' M- 17th Dragoons, 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



several British Regiments in the District of New York 26th 



To Whom Attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


22d Regiment Foot 

37th Regiment Foot 


5 
5 

10 
1 


10 
10 

20 
2 


5 
5 


42d Regiment Foot 

Detachment of the Northern Army 


10 
1 


Total 


21 


42 


21 



Oliver Bgtjrdett 

W. Master General 



116 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

I do certify that the above named twenty one Drivers 
number of Horses and Waggons amounting to forty two Horses 
were Mustered by me this day at New York as above mentioned 
and that the said Number of Horses appear to be perfectly 
best of my judgment in good and serviceable Order. 



Return of Drivers, Horses, Waggons, Carts, Drays, Timber 
York 26th August 1781. 



William Hinton 

William Goodman. 

Jacob Mute 

George Honesty 

Adam Mintus 

Edward Moore. . . . 

Richard More 

John Stamper 

John Henry 

James Black 

Abraham Miller . . . 
Caesar Skillman. . . 

Hery Bourdett 

Andrew Kinkade . . . 

William Kiddy 

Daniel Quin 

Patrick Allen 

Wanney Van Saun . 

Wanney Savage 

Martin Cox 

Peter Durham 



Drivers Names 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 117 

personally appeared before me this day and that the above 
and twenty one Waggons have also appeared before me, and 
pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in Chief's Orders, 
serviceable and that the Waggons with their Harness are to the 

J. Welch, Q"" M^ 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Muster. 



wheels, &c in the Quarf^ Master General's Department at New 



To Whom Attached 



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To the supply of the General and 
Staff Officers, Hospitals, the 
mounting of Guides and Ex 
presses, and for the moving of 
Field Forges, Timber Wheels, 
Transporting of Stores, Baggage 
&c of the Army. 



118 PKOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Drivers Names 



George Wingf all . . 

John Harwell 

John F. Drayer . . 
Quash, a Negro. . 
Jack, a Negro — 
James Hornwist . . 
William Hawkins. 

John Ochart 

Abraham Smith . . 
Soloman Sizland . . 
York, a Negro . . . 
James Black 



John Harvey 

John Logan 

Hugh McDowell.. 

John Green 

Dennis Dair . . . 
Caesar, a Negro . . 

John Fritz 

Robert Logan .... 
Pompey, a Negro. 
William Sampson. 
Joseph Russell .... 

Joseph Black 

John Frazer 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 119 



To Whom Attached 


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Small Waggons 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels, 
&c 


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33 


126 


3 


41 


Carried forward 

Brought forward 


33 
33 

14 


126 
126 


3 
3 


41 
41 


Total 


47 


126 


3 


41 



120 



PKOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Drivers Names 



John Farrell 

Joseph Thompson 
John McKenney . . 
Charles Jenkins . . 



I do certify that the above named forty seven Drivers have 
nmnber of Horses, Waggons, Carts, Drays, Trucks, &c amomit- 
forty one small waggons, Carts, Drays, Trucks, Timber Wheels 
day at New York; also the above named four drivers appeared 
by me at Paulus Hook as above specified pursuant to His 
Number of Horses (three sick and lame excepted) appear to be 
Harness are to the best of my Judgement in good and serviceable 



Examined the Returns which had been taken of the Com- 
f oUows : — 

Muster Roll of Artificers, Labourers &c employed in the 



Names 


Where Employed 


Carpenters 

John Kelly 




John Leonard 




WiUiam Lorton 




Lewis Lorton 


> New York 


Thomas Ridding 

Joshua Browne 




Cornelius Kingsland 





OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 121 









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Oliver Bourdett 

Wag° Master General 

personally appeared before me this day and that the above 
ing to One hundred and twenty six horses, three large Waggons, 
&c have also appeared before me and were Mustered by me this 
personally with eight Horses and four Carts and were Mustered 
Excell'^y the Commander in Chief's Orders, and that the said 
perfectly serviceable and that the Waggons &c with their 
Order. 

J. Welch, Q' M- 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Muster. 



missary General's Waggons, Horses, Drivers, Artificers, &c as 



Cormnissary General's Provision Department. 



Names 



Where Employed 



James Grant 

Wilham Cleaves . . 
Richard Wenman 
Gilbert Pell 

Coopers 

Richard Smy 

Mathew Melvin.. 



New York 



New York 



122 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Names 



Where Employed 



Patrick Ferguson 

John McMinn 

Robert McGwillam. . . 

Tom Richards 

Eneas Graham 

Daniel Stilwell 

Butchers 

Peter Ball 

George Ciker 

John NichoUs 

James Rote 

Labourers 

Negro Orestus 

John Algee v . . . 

James Jordan 

Edward Morrison — 

Isaac Pake 

Philip Adams 

NegTo George 

William Murchee — 

Michael McCann 

Nicholas Butler 

James Cashan 

John Boscow 

John Muldoon 

Cornelius Van Home 

William Homes 

Frederick Sholts 

Richard Minif ee 

Robert Stokes 

John Faulk 

Frederick Margeson . . 

John Laverage 

Hugh Crawford 



New York 



New York 



New York 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 123 



Names 



Where Employed 



Patrick Fleming 

Michael Laderick . . . 

John McDonald 

Isaac Brower 

Michael Jordan .... 
John McLachlan ... 

Patrick Nevan 

Isaac Hedges 

John McGear 

John Bigger , 

Negro Toney 

Negro Antrim 

Isaac Demitt 

Negro Supio 

Thomas Murphy. . . . 

John Russell 

James Quigley 

Baker Brasher sick 

John Newstead 

Joseph Goodwin 

Samuel Lilhck 

Robert Scott 

Edward Waleing. . . 

Negroe Ben 

John Reid Senr 

John Reid Junr .... 

James Parker 

David Finney 

Michael Slidell 

John Armstrong 

Abraham Laverge . . 

Orick King 

Martin Heman 

Negroe Sampson ... 
Jacob Van Hook . . . 
William Hern 



New York 



124 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Names 



Where Employed 



Edmund Sweeney 

John Hagathee 

Joseph Nutten 

Christopher Ternyea 

William Cockery 

John Farrall 

Joseph Bedson 

William Smith 

Michael Stagg 

John Jackson 

Negroe Harry 

James McArath 

William Jennings 

James Degay 

Arch** Thompson 

Thomas Rowett 

George Ross Sick . . . . 
EdW* Smallridge Sick. 
John Greenwood Sick, 

Edmund Dwyer 

James King 

Thomas Johnston 

Jacob Miller 

Alex"' Gilmore 

Jeremiah Driscoll 

John Cameron 

William Anderson 

John Armstrong 

Thom« Stratford 

Benj Van Winkel Sick 

William Jarvis 

John Stewart 



New York 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 125 



Names 



Where Employed 



Murdach Mackenzie. 

Patrick Brady 

Alexander Dobbin . . . 

Obed. Cook 

Peter Langsbraith . . . 

John Cook 

Richard Edwards . . . . 

William Powell 

Joseph Miller 

Robert Belcher 

Negroe Peter 

Carpenters 

George Hemain 

Samuel Van Gesen . . 
John Van Iderstine . . 

Stephen Arnold 

Joseph Hays 

Walter Flynn 



Masons 

Joseph Thorn 

Henderick Lutkins. 

Labourers 

John Lutkins 

Patrick Walch 

Mcintosh.. 
Butchers 

John Tournay 

James Eager 

Labourers 

Negroe Jerry 

Jacob 



New York 



Staten Island Employed 
only to build a store 



^Paulus Hook 



Sixteen Carts & Horses 



New York 



G. TOWNSHEND 

Ass Com Gen^ 



126 



PROCEEDINGS OP A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



I do hereby Certify I have Mustered in the Commissary 
and Paulus Hook Eighteen Carpenters, Eight Coopers, Six 
teen Horses & Sixteen Carts, by allowing five Men sick. 

This 26th Day of August 1781. 



Muster Roll of the Assistants Overseers, Coopers, Labour- 
Department, at the different Provision Magazines on this 



Where Mustered 



Names 



Brooklyn . 



Yellow Hook. 



Hallet's Cove . . 



New Town . 



Greggs Farish . . . 
William Maffett. 
William White... 
Jacob Walden . . . 

Cato 

Jacob Wilkinson. 
Casar Miller .... 



f William Palmer. 

John Miller 

[James French . . . 



James Foster 

Benj Rappillee 

Thos Howell Smith. 
Jas. Fosters Negro. 



Gillam Tailer 

Thomas White Smith. 

James Crumbly 

John Jackson 

Daniel Way 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 127 

General's Provision Department in New York, Staten Island 
Butchers, two Masons, one hundred and six Labourers & Six- 



J. Welch, Q- M- 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Muster 



Brooklyn, Long Island 23d August 1781 

ers and Waggoners, Employed in the Commissary General's 
Island. 



Remarks 



Assistant . 
Overseer . . 
Cooper . . . 
Labourer . 

u 
u 

Waggoner 

Assistant . 
Cooper . . . 
Labourer . 

Assistant . 
Overseer . . 
Cooper . . . 
Labourer . 

Assistant . 
Cooper . . . 
Labourer . 

u 
u 



Two Horses & 1 Waggon 



Occasional Labourer 



128 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Where Mustered 



Names 



Jamaica . 



Lloyd's Neck. 



Richd Wm Parkin. . . . 
Joseph W Coddington . 

Hugh Martin 

Patrick Wieurgan 

Nathan Nelson 

Negro Lewy 

Negro James 



f James G. Johnson. . 
\ William McDonald. 



I do Certify that the above named assistants, Overseers? 
Waggon) personally appeared before me and were Mustered by 
His Excellency the Commander in Chief's Orders. 

Given under my Hand at Brooklyn this 31st day of August 



Muster Roll of Artificers, Labourers, &c Employed in the 
Marston's wharf. 



Names 


Where Employed 


Carpenters 

Alexander Leslie 




David Bane 




Cooper 

Miles Post 


Haerlem Heights 


Labourers 

Dennis Post 




John Baalman 





OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 129 





Remarks 


Assist 




Assist 


Late at Hampstead 


Labourer 




u 




u 




u 




u 


Occasional Labourer 


Assist 




Labourer 









Roger Johnson 

Assist Comm^ General. 

Coopers, Labourers and Waggoner (with two Horses and one 
me at the different places as above mentioned, pursuant to 



1781. 



Benj'* Rix, 

Q' M' 17th Lt. Dragoons. 



Commissary General's Department at Haerlem Heights and 



Names 



Where Employed 



Thomas McKie . . . 
William Beaton . . . 
Joseph Nodine . . . . 

David Post 

William Anderson. 
Henry McMurdy. 

Jere Beekman 

William Sibiston . . 

Thomas Slade 

Negro Daniel 



' Haerlem Heights 



130 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Names 



Where Employed 



Negro William 

Richd Jacobs 

Two Waggons, One Cart, Six Wagg° 
Horses 

Cooper 

Philip Young 

Labourers 

John Conrad Demas 



^ Haerlem Heights 



Marston's Wharf 



I do hereby Certify I have Mustered in the Commissary 
Wharf, two Carpenters, two Coopers, twenty two Labourers, 
this 26th day of August 1781. 



Muster Roll of Artificers, Labourers, Carts, Waggons, 
Department. 



No 



Name 



1 

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 



John Lashore 

Christ. Whart 

James Rhob 

Michael Leary .... 
Richard Heffeman. 

Jack Myers 

Peter Loshe 

Charles Ackerman. 
Dennis Dowling. . . 
Hugh Duncan 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 131 



Names 



Where Employed 



Charles Hinxman 

Robert Cook 

Henry Hemion 

William Hanselbaker 

Augustine Van Donk 

Thomas Johnston 

Negro Cyprus 

One Waggon, two Horses, two 
Carts, One Horse & two Oxen.. 



G. TOWNSHEND 

Ass' a- Gen». 

General's Departmt at Haerlem Heights and Marston's 
three Waggons, three Carts, two Oxen & Nine Waggon Horses 

Jos Gardner, Qu^ M^ 17th Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



Horses and Drivers employed in the Commissary General's 



Employment 


Vv'here Employed 


Cooper . . 
Labourer 




Grain Magazine New York 

u 
u 


a 




u 


u 




u 


u 




u 


u 




u 


Stacker . . 

u 




Hay Magazine New York 


u 




u 



132 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Name 



11 Isaac McSparren. . . . 

12 James West 

13 Robert Chambers — 

14 James Gosling 

15 Will Consaback 

16 Walter Parsell 

17 Thomas Miles 

18 John Sweed 

19 John Kingsland 

20 Mathew Burns 

21 John Taylor 

22 Peter Lashere 

23 Jacob Ott 

24 Thomas Leader 

25 Jacob Apple 

26 Joseph Sparrington . . 

27 Peter Bogart 

28 John Soule 

29 Henry Day 

30 William McKinney.. 

31 James White 

32 Thomas Williams 

33 Alexander McGregor. 

34 John Adams 

35 Peter Gargison 

36 John Orchard 

37 John Bayley 

38 Mathew Beard 

39 James Wisher 

40 James Moore 

41 Hector McKinzie 

42 Alex Bradbm-n 

43 Henry Mullen 

44 William Kilso 

45 James Anderson 

46 John Allison 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



133 



Employment 


Where Employed 


Stacker 


Hay Magazine 


u 


« 


Labourer 


u 


(( 


a 


u 


a 


u 


a 


it 


a 


u 


u 


a 


u 


u 


a 


u 


u 


a 


a 




u 


u 


u 




u 


u 


u 




u 


u 


u 




u 


u 


u 




u 


u 


u 




u 


u 


u 




u 


il 


u 




u 


u 


a 




u 


u 


u 




a 


u 


u 




u 


a 


u 




u 


u 


a 



134 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Name 



47 
48 
49 
50 
51 
52 
53 
54 
55 
56 
57 
58 
59 
60 
61 
62 
63 
64 
65 
66 
67 
68 
69 
70 
71 
72 
73 
74 
75 
76 
77 
78 
79 
80 
81 
82 



James Park 

Thomas McKilL... 

John Bradley 

Thomas Tobin 

Tom Langrange .... 
Edward Messer. . . . 
Adam Barbarea. . . . 

Cato James 

Mount Brown 

Caesar Kam 

John Monier 

Peter Smith 

Prince Lowrey 

Caesar Brinley 

Jack Bayard 

Cato Charles 

Prince Davis 

Cato Ceburn 

Caesar Watson 

Jack Beackman .... 

Samuel Cooper 

Samuel Homfray . . . 

David 

John Day 

Cornelius McKinzie. 

William Oliver 

Jack Stanton 

Scipio Clay 

Felix Brinley 

John Heard 

Robert Combs 

Rhuben Evans 

Sam 

Tom 

Tom 

Isaac 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 135 



Employment 


Where Employed 


Labourer 


Hay Magazine 
« 


« 


u 


« 


a 


« 


u 


a 


u 


a 


u 


tt 


u 


tt 


a 


a 


u 


a 


«c 


a 


tt 


a 


a 


tt 


tt 


a 


a 


a 


u 


u 


a 


a 


u 


u 


u 


a 


u 


a 


u 


tt 


a 


« 


u 


tt 


u 


u 


u 


u 


tt 


u 


a 


tt 


tt 


u 


u 


u 


Stacker 


Staten Island Magazine 

u 


u 


Labourer 


tt 


u 


tt 


tt 


tt 


u 


« 


a 


« 



136 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Name 



83 

84 



Isaac . . 
Munro . 



At the Hay Magazine New York twelve Horses & Carts 
Horses Complete. 

I do hereby Certify that I have Mustered and Inspected One 
twelve Carts & One Waggon in the Commissary General's 
the above Muster Roll, and that they actually appeared on the 



Muster Roll of Labourers, Drivers, &c employed in the 
Prince 
Bill 
Dorus 
Jack 
PhiUp Berger Driver, One Cart and two Oxen, Alexander 
These certify that Eight Labourers, one Cart, and two Oxen 
Department at Brooklyn Long Island under the Direction of 



New Town Long Island 28th August 1781 

Muster Roll of Assistants and Labourers Employed in the 
Service. 

Walter Humphrys Assist Commissi of Forage 

John Sweethen | 

CorneUus Daily ^Labourers 

Comfort Benedick J 

Benjamin Rix, Q' M' 

17th Dragoons Acting Asst Comm^ of Musters 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 137 



Employment 


Where Employed 


Labourer 

u 


Staten Island Magazine 







Geo Brinley 

C^ Forage, 
complete at Staten Island Magazine one Waggon and two 

Cooper, Seven Stackers, twenty six Labourers, fourteen Horses, 
Department in New York and on Staten Island; agreeable to 
Spot, except five Men Sick, this 26th day of August 1781. 
J. Welch, Q- M^ 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 

Forage Department at Brooklyn Long Island. 
Arthur 
Lewis 
Peter 
Ashman 

Mcintosh, Driver One Waggon and two Horses. 

and a Driver all above named, are employed in the Forage 

Wm Tyng 

Dy Comy 
Brooklyn 26th August 1781. 
Ben J™ Rix, 
Q' M' 17th Lt. Dragoons 



Commissary General's Department at this Post in the Forage 



Gone to New York with the Weekly Returns 
of Forage. 



Walter Humphrys 
Assist Comm^ of Forage 



138 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Muster Roll of Assistants & Labourers employed in the 
Service. 

John Yates Assistant 
Mathew Farrington 
James Wine 

Benj'' Rix, 

Qu' M^ 17th Lt. Dragoons 

Acting Assist Comm^ of Musters. 



Muster Roll of the Assistants and Labourers employed in 
missary General &c. — 

William Shepherd, A. C. F. 
John Leonard 
John McFee 
William Connett 
Mathias Johnson 
Peter Smith 
John Tomson 
Patrick Curry 

Total 16 

Benj.°» Rix, Qu'^ M^^ 17th Lt Dragoons, 
Acting as Asst Comm^ of Musters. 



Muster Roll of Assistant and Labourer employed in the 
Light Dragoons at this post in the Forage Service. 

John Jarvis, Assistant 



Benj" Rix, Qu' M' 17th Light Dragoons, 
Acting Asst Commy of Musters. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 139 

Flushing Long Island 28th Aug 1781 
Commissi' General's Department at this post in the Forage 

Black John 
Black Toney 
Black Boss 

John Yates 

A. C. F. 



Jamaica Long Island 28th Aug 1781 
His Majesty's Forage Magazine under Daniel Wier Esq'' Com- 

Black Jack 
Black Prince 
Black Splato 
Black Isaac 
Black Liverpool 
Black Lew 
Black Chatham 
Black Ashman 

William Shepard 

A. C. F. 



Fresh Meadows, Long Island, Aug 30th, 1781 
Commissary General's Department with the 17th Regiment 

Thomas Jones, Labourer 

John Jarvis 

Asst Comm^ of Forage, 

with the 17th Regt Light Dragoons 



140 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Examined the Returns which has been taken of the Barrack 
Master General's Drivers, Waggons, Horses, Artificers, &c &c 
as follows: — 

Muster Roll of the Artificers, Labourers, Horses, Waggons 
and Carts employed in His Majesty's Service in the Barrack 
Master General's Department in New York, taken 26th August 
1781, in conformity to the request of the Board of General 
Officers, signified by them in a Letter to Lieut Colonel Crosbie 
Barrack Master General, dated the 20th instant. 



Carpenters. 



19 



Henry Thomas 
David Austin 
James Covers 
George Smith 
Amos Chase 
Paul Brown 
Samuel Thomas 
Isaac Gidney 
Ebinezer Smith 
Richard Rowden 



John Goddard 
Dariet Goddart 
John D Lamaeter 
John Kilegroor 
John Howard 
Christ. Hanson 
Jonathan Closing 
Jacob Gerod 
Daniel Kieting 



Labourers & Cartmen 45 



Alex' Robertson, Wag° M' 
Joseph Mac Fall, Assist 
Thomas Acker 
Richard Holloway 
Martin Bucks 
John Club 
Cornelius Dyckman 
Peter Dyckman 
Martin Fowler 
Abraham Williams 
John WiUiams, Senr 
John Williams Junr 
Samuel Williams 
Alex McDonald 
John WyUe 
Michael Allen 



& Overseer 
Mandit Van Horn 
Frederick Hellman 
Robert Graham 
John Wainwright 
Robert Wright 
William Denier 
Richard Dykman 
Paul Friday 
John Green 
Jeremiah Moore 
Daniel Morewise 
Richard Mount 
David Paterson 
Alberts Tybout 
Abb"" Okerman 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 141 



John Bogart 
John Finland 
Isaac Young 
George Dyckman 
James Cockrane 
Jacob Stayman 
John Normond 



William Webb 
Caleb Featch 
William Waldron 
Charles Taylor 
Christopher Byreman 
Christopher Paterson 



Labourers 



13 



Peter Stewart 
Benj° Steel 
Seth Crowell 
Daniel Bogart 
Henry Williams 
John Lintner 



John Clisby 
Lethan Stanton 
David Ross 
John Kulpt, Sick 
Jacob Howser 
Christian Carrickmyer 
Fred'' Houseman 



Negro Labourers 



63 



Generous Brutus 
Will Ash 
Sam^ Atkins 
Pollydore AUick 
Jack Adams 
Dick Barnham 
Cupid Bennett 
Jack Butler 
Scipio Channel 
Tom Fountain 
Cato Fowler 
William Ferris 
Harry Fowler 
Ned Goddin 
Jack Gibbons 
Will Glenn 
Prince Hoebrick 
Jordan Jack 
Harry Jacks 
Sam Crayton 
Tom Lagrue 



Sam Morris 
Titus Milliner 
Rob Powell 
Abr™ Quince 
Jack Robinson 
Jack Ranger 
Tom Robinson 
Jack Rogers 
Dick Richardsons 
George Livingstone 
Tom Sommors 
Jack Scully 
Jacob Somerset 
Tom Channel 
Pompey Clarke 
Dick Coles 
Caesar Gould 
Cambridge Dublin 
Robert Dalton 
Jack Eddison 
Ned Edmimd 



142 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Pompy Fleet Rob. Robbin 

Jupiter Farmer Dick Brown 

James Stivers Bombaru 

William Smith James Davie 

Princus Scott Peter 

Tom Thompson November 

Peter Tarbet Wilham 

Sancha Pancha Jackson 

Joe Williams Daniel King 

Jack WilUams 59 Horses, 40 Carts, 3 Wag- 
Reuben Watner gons with Tackling com- 
Cuffie Warwick plete. 

Staten Island 

2 Labourers, John Mitchel, Lambert Gunner, one Driver 
Isaac Plur, One Waggon & 2 Horses. 
Barrack M' Gen''^ Office 

New York Aug. 26th 178L 
James Clakke 
I do hereby Certify that I have Mustered in the Barrack 
Master General's Department in New York Nineteen Car- 
penters, forty five Labourers and Carmen, thirteen Labourers, 
Sixty three Negroe Labourers, fifty nine Horses, forty Carts and 
three Waggons with Tackling complete: By allowing one Man 
sick, one man absent, one Man and Six Horses on Duty Also 
on Staten Island, Two Labourers, one Driver, One Waggon and 
two Horses. j .^^^^^^^ Q^r ^r ^y^^ Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



Jamaica, Long Island, 28th August 1781 
Muster Roll of the Assistants and Labourers, employed 
in the Barrack Master General's Department. 
Jamaica George Gunn, Assistant 

Charles Dimie, Labourer 
Newtown George Rapalye Assistant 

Geo: Gunn 

Ass. B. M. 

Benj° Rix, Qu' M' 17th Lt. Dragoons 
Act^ ass* Comm^ of Musters. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 143 



Muster Roll of the Barrack Master General's Department 
stationed at Brooklyn and Yellow Hook Long Island. 

Brooklyn 31st August 1781. 



Names 


Where to assemble 


Sulivan Sutherland Asst. B. M' 




Benjamin Tyers Conductor 




Freebody Conductor 




Adam Cunningham Yard Keeper 




Labourers 


( Brooklyn 


Jonathan Stoney 




WilUam Jones 




Donald McLellan 




James Smith 




Caesar Wood 





0. Sulivan Sutherland 
Asst B. Mr. 

I do certify that the above named Asst. Barrack Master, 
two conductors one yard Keeper and five Labourers, have per- 
sonally appeared before me this day, and were mustered by me 
at Brookljm as above mentioned, pursuant to His Excellency 
the Commander in Chief's Orders. 

Given under my Hand at Brooklyn 
this 31st Day of August 1781. 

Benj° Rix, Qu' M^ 

17th Light Dragoons. 



Lloyd's Neck 29th August 1781. 
Muster Roll of the Assistants and Labourers, Horses and 
Waggons employed in the Barrack Master General's Depart- 
ment. 

James Nixon, Assistant 

James Moore " 

Nathan Roberts Carpenter 

John Nichols Blacksmith 

Freedom Burdick Conductor 



144 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Nicholas Harmony Waggoner 

John McMaster " 

Charles Stackhouse " 

Tertullus Dickenson " 

Joseph Rathburn " 

John Underwood " 

John C. Church « 

Henry Ronalds " 

Arch<^ Charter " 

John Calvin Turner " 

James Long " 

John Willis « 

Dover Steadman " 

Steph Moore " 

Ichobad Black « 

Thomas Conckling " 
Total 21 men — 16 Waggons & 41 Horses 

Jas. Nixon 

^ .n -P,. Asst. to the B'' M'. 
Benj" Rix, 

Qu- M"" 17th Light Dragoons 

Acting Assist. Commissary of Musters. 



Muster Roll of the Labourers, Drivers, Horses and Carts 
employed in His Majesty's Service in the Barrack Master 
General's Department on York Island taken the 26th August 
1781 in conformity to the request of the Board of General 
OflBcers, signified by them in a Letter to Lieut Colonel Crosbie 
Barrack Master General dated the 20th Instant. 

Labourers and Drivers 



Jacob Laizer 
WilUam Adams 
Edw"* Moarerly 
Adam Heirman 
Robert Hughes 
Wilham Anderson 
Lawrence Skinnick 
Harman Hutts 



Stephen Weakley 
Isaac De la Maitre 
Peter Grant 
Daniel Grant 
Robert Miller 
Samuel Hill 
William McLean 
John Shields 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 145 



Neen Pero 
Andrew Gilmore 



George Henry 
Daniel Williams 



20 Horses and 20 Carts with their Harness Compleat. 
Barrack Mast. General's Office New York August 26th 1781. 

James Clarke 

I do hereby certify that I have Mustered in the Barrack 
Master General's Department on York Island, Twenty Labour- 
ers & Drivers, Twenty Horses, and twenty Carts with their 
Tackling compleat. 

Jos. Gardner 

Q. M- 17 Lt Dragoons Acting as 
Comm^ of Musters. 



Lloyds Neck 29th August 1781 

Muster Roll of the Vessels employed in the Barrack Master 
General's department. 



Schooner William 




William Johnston 


Master 


David Norea 


Mate 


WiUiam Leacher 


Seaman 


Thomas Rosgrove 


u 


Sloop Peggy 




William May 


Master 


John Robinson 


Mate 


Alexander Blake 


Seaman 


George Amos 


li 


Peter Black 


it 


Schooner St. Andrew 




George Jefferson 


Master 


George Gunn 


Mate 


Joseph Armstrong 


Seaman 


Josiah Butler 


a 


Richard Black 


u 



146 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OP GENERAL OFFICERS 



Brig Three Friends 




Francis Kirk 


Master 


Elijah Parker 


Mate 


George Duncan 


Seaman 


Fower Smith 


u 


Quash Mowatt 


a 


Schooner York 




Samuel Perry 


Master 


Silas Perry 


Mate 


Patrick Blackburn 


Seaman 


Thomas Black 


u 


Jack Black 


a 


Samuel Black 


a 


Edward Perry 


a 


Sloop Happy Couple 




John Stanton 


Master 


Job. Goddard 


Mate 


Daniel Trainer 


Seaman 


John King 


u 



Jas. Nixon 
Asst. to the B'^ Master 



Benj' 



Rix. 

Qu^ M-^ 17th Lt. Dragoons 

Acting Asst Comm^ of Musters 



New York 26th August 1781 
Muster Roll of Artificers, Sawyers, &c employed at the 
undermentioned places under the direction of Captain Alexander 
Mercer Commanding Engineer. 



Where Employed 



New York . 



Stations 



Foremen.. . .< 
Carpenters.. < 



Names 



Joseph English 
Herman Ladrue 
Hugh Glenn 
Andrew Brown 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 147 



Where Employed 



New York , 



Stations 



Carpenters. 



Foremen. . . 



Carpenters. 



Masons. . 



Foreman. 



Smiths . 



Names 



Archibald Keith 
William Robinson 
William Henderson 
John Ball 
James Walsh 
Phineas Howell 
Felix Bentley 
James Aylwood 
Hampton Oliver 
Gysbart Bogart 
Nathaniel Harriott 
David Smith 
Hugh Drake 
Michael Rudder 
Levi Deeker 
James Lang 
John Anderson 
John O Neal 
John Towers 
Peter McWharton 
Andrew Ritchie 
Richard Gumming 
Andrew Gibson 
John Boggs 
Thomas Middleton 
Benjamin Head 
Obadiah Pannel 
William Laight 
Duncan McEchran 
Henry Bush 
Jacob Varden 
William Varden 
Robert Ireland 
Martin Merigon 
Joseph Baker 
James Henderson 



148 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Where Employed 


Stations 


Names 




/ 


Peter CufPee 




Smiths < 


Jacob Till 
John Keene 
Daniel McGraw 
John Saunders 
James Farries 
James Connolly 
Anthony Tiebout 


New York • 


Labourers. . . ' 
Acting Qu^ 


William Green 
Cato 
Anthony 
John Davids 
Harry Thomas 
Samuel Dove 
John Ramsey 
Thomas James 




Master. . . . 


Archibald McNeil 






Abraham Conrad 




Foremen. . . . < 


John Booth 
Archibald Fullerton 






Daniel Connor 
Josiah Banks 
Norris Carr 
Wilham Palson 
John Steenburg 


Staten Island . . . ' 




Wm Speekman 
Isaac Scoffil 




Carpenters. . 


John McCollom 
William Sypher 
James Howell 
William Fish 
Thomas Dun nam 
Andrew Pickens 
Anthony Egbert 
John Dove 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



149 




Names 



Staten Island. 



Martin Blackford 
William Stocomb 
Nicholas Esting 
Samuel Barnett 
James Powell 
John Davidson 
James Gibbeny 
Nathaniel Parker 
John Patient 
Samuel Ginnings 
William Shields 
Jonathan Conrad 
Adam Smith 
Nathaniel Hornett 
James Blissard 
PhiUp Cethline 
Christopher Bernard 
Benj° Aylwood 
Jeremiah Myers 
James Johnson 
Charles Wright 
Benjamin Freeman 
Peter Arthur 
James Downs 
Frederick Wiser 
Asher Aylwood 
Henry Miller 
Mathew Graves 
WilUam Stites 
James Ferguson 
Joseph Baker 
WilUam Fraser 
John Elwerd 
John Coughtree 
John McKoy 
John Largeley 



150 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Where Employed 



Station 



Staten Island. 



Paulus Hook. . . . ^ 



Sawyers . 



Foremen. 



Carpenters. 



Names 



Sawyers. 



William Beers 
Abraham Chadwell 
Oliver Williams 
William Hutchinson 
Thomas Day 
John Lasson 
Robert Wilkinson 
John Layeock 
Owen Hews 

Marmaduke Hutchinson 
John Cattle 
John Bond 
Amos Dillon 
John Turner 
John Jenkins 
Francis Dominick 
John Livilly 
George Lord 
Thomas Sprout 
Charles Taylor 
John Fordell 
Thomas Randall 
Isaac Davis 
Philip Gage 
William Worster 
Joseph Barlow 
Samuel Pritchett 
Charles Brewer 
Jacob Mawby 
Isaac Lawson 
Thomas Thome 
Elias Top 
John Gomez 
Lewis Debois 
Luke Bird 
Thomas Potts 
John Webster 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 151 



Where Employed 


Station 


Names 




Foreman 


Conrad Wiler 
John Shannon 
Joseph Saxton 
William Fraser 
Andrew Durand 




Carpenters. . ^ 


Joshua Watson 
John Butler 
John Clark 
Edward McKindray 




\^ 


Smith Jones 



Number of Horses, Waggons, Carts and Dirvers Mustered 
in New York. 



Drivers Names 


No. of 
Drivers 


No. of 
Horses 


No. of 
Waggons 


No. of 
Carts 


Richard Coughtery .... 
Robert Atkins 


6 
3 


12 
3 


6 




Thomas Peters ^ 

Thomas AUway 

Michael Wiler 




John Rob 




John Miller \ 


3 


William Acker 




Total 


9 


15 


6 


3 







I do hereby Certify I have Mustered in the Engineer's 
Department, at New York, Staten Island and Paulus Hook, 
under the Command of Captain Alexander Mercer Command- 
ing Engineer. One Acting Quarter Master, thirteen Foremen, 
Ninety two Carpenters, Eighteen Sawyers, Eleven Masons, 
Ten Smiths, thirteen Labourers, Nine Drivers, fifteen Horses, 
Six Small Waggons and Three Carts as above mentioned. 

J. Welch 

Qu' M- 17th Dragoons 
Acting as Commissi of Musters. 



152 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

New York 26th August 1781 

Muster Roll of Artificers, Sawyers &c employed at the 
undermentioned places under the direction & orders of Captain 
Alexander Mercer, Commanding Enguieer. 



Where Employed 


Station 


Names 


r 


/ 


Joseph Watkins 




Foremen — ■ 

> 


WilUam Simpson 
Peter Gearbrants 
Josiah McCurty 
Able Land 
George Soules 
William Kingsland 
John Williams 
John Bardine 
Peter Melvin 
John Plantain 
Samuel Lloyd 
Barnett Llyim 
John Barber 
Duncan Currie 


Horns Hook. . . .- 




Roger Sullivan 




Carpenters. . ' 


Richard McGinnis 

Peter Vandeford 

John Devoir 

Thomas Gurty 

Ninian Lindsay 

John Peaehey 

Samuel Walstine 

Daniel Soules 

Andrew Carthew 

Roger Molholland 

John Mahony q* l- • 

William Gardner |-^ y , 

Richard WilkinsonJ 










Laughlin Campbell 


^ 




William Holmes 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



153 




Where Employed 



Horns Hook ■" 



Samuel Milligan 

George Dawson 

Mathew Douglass 

I I Isaac Weeks 

Carpenters.. <U.^jj^j^ Irvine 

Conrad Gunter 
John Lewis 
Jacob Dice 
David Oliver 
Thomas Scadden 
Andrew Leonard 
John Millegan 
John Warner 
John Ostrum 
I i William Bamett 

ISawyers....^ James Keith 

Joseph Willerby 
Peter Hance 
John Heust 
Conrad Grovestine 
Daniel Aymar 
Daniel Sutherland 

Foreman William Baird 

Thomas Kerr 
Peter Bradshaw 
Newcomb Smith 
Barry Waldron 
Isaac Waldron 
Martm Rush 
1 Grifl&n Pritchett 
Carpenters..^ John Fitzpatrick 
Charles Boulbe 
James Perro 
John Ruttan 
Daniel Ruttan 
Abraham Gerring 
William Henry 



154 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Where Employed 



Horns Hook. 



Fort Knyphausen 
and its 
Dependencies . 



Stations 



Carpenters. 



Sawyers . 



Labourers. 



Foremen. 






Carpenters. . 



Sawyers . 



Names 



Joseph Sheldon 
Esburn Pringle 
Samuel Hutchins 
James Bradshaw 
Barth"^ Moore 
William Robinson 
Alexander Dougle 
John Dougal 
Alexander MeClintock 
John Reid 
Archibald Nesbitt 
John Williams 
William Wilkins 
Adrian Shearman 
John Cursur 
Robert Angus 
Robert Craigue 
William Cameron 
WilUam Cudmore 
Enoch Leonard 
John Oblinus 
Isaac Anderson 
Peter Vonck 
John Simmons 
William Stringham 
William Davis 
Daniel Irvine 
William McKenzie 
Andrew Ostrum 
Thomas Manuel 
Jacob Myers 
Alexander Thomas 
John Gray 
John Hurter 
Walter Bourke 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 155 



I do hereby Certify I have Mustered in the Engineer De- 
partment at Horns Hook and Fort Knyphausen under the 
Cormnand of Capt Alexander Mercer Commanding Engineer 
Six Foremen, Seventy Carpenters, twenty three Sawyers and 
four Labourers, excepting three Carpenters sick as above 
specified. 

Jos Gardner, 

Qu' M' 17th Lt. Dragoons 

Acting Commy of Musters 



Brooklyn 26th August 1781 
Muster Roll of Carpenters, Sawyers &c employed at this 
place under the direction and Orders of Captain Alexander 
Mercer Commanding Engineer. 



Where Employed 


Stations 


Names 




/ 


John Houseman Senr 
Andrew Heron 
William Nesbitt 




Foremen — - 


Robert Bruce 
Timothy Fheelon 
John Houseman, Jun- 




> 


WilUam Lowrey 
Jehiel Kethune Sick 


Heights of Brook- 
l}^! Long Island 




George Tucker 
Christ. Harrison 
John McAlpine Sick 
Samuel Warne 




Carpenters. . < 


Joseph Arthur 
John Moore 
William Moore 
Henry Graham 
Joseph Hitchcock 
Peter Lawson Sick 
Robert Wilson 
John Lewis Sick 
James Lawson 



156 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Where Employed 



Heights of Brook- 
Ijni Long Island 



Stations 



Carpenters. . < 



Names 



Sawyers . . . .< 



Foreman. 



Carpenters. . i 



Renyon Martin 
John Taylor 
Cornelius Daily 
Lawrence Van Buskirk 
Nathaniel Scott 
James Christholm 
Abraham Lawson 
Stephen Foster 
Simon Van Clack 
Benjamin Mosely 
Ahasuerus Van Clack 
John Loose Sick 
Daniel McAlpine Sick 
John Buskirk 
Henry Sharp 
Thomas Malone 
Levi Van Clack 
Duncan McCall 
Faulkner Valleaw 
John Parsells 
WilUam McKoy 
John Barter 
Allen Livingston 
George Mosely Junr 
John Nartoon 
David Edwards 
George Mosley Senr 
Charles Johnson 
Henry Murphy 
Joshua Pike 
Alexander Kevand 
William Jacocks 
Jonathon Oliver 
Alexander Simpson 
Lewis Dennis 
John Walker 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 157 



Where Employed 


Stations 


Names 






CorneUus Mabee 
John McGowan 
Lutheran Morris 




Carpenters. . i 


John Adams 
Edward Roach 
Thomas Baures 
Andrew Gunter 


Heights of Brook- 
lyn Long Island 


Sawyers. . . .■< 


John Ferguson 
Richard Faney 
Thomas Barlow 
Daniel Blowett 




Foreman 


Johnson Patten 






Robert Eaton 
John Stewart 




Masons ' 


Armond Hosliter 

Thomas Ritchie Wounded 




i 


James Stewart 



Benj^ 



Will" Marshall 

Captain 63d Regt &c &c 
Rix, 
Qu^ M' 17th Lt Dragoons 



Made some calculations on the Expence of Horses and 
Ordered a particular Return to be given in by Captain Chads 
of all the Vessels in each Department Chartered and Certified 
by him with the prices pr Ton at which they are hired. 

Then adjourned till Thursday next. 



Thursday 6th September 1781. 

The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Monday. 

Present His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Lieutenant General Campbell 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 



158 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Received and read the Return of Vessels certified by Cap 
of last meeting, with a Letter from Mr Skelton as follows: — 

Sir:— 

In compliance with your Excellency's directions on Monday 
small Crafts, Boats, Boatmen, and Batteaux Men, for which 
last with one months pay respectively annexed to each, agreeable 
of the Board of General Officers under that date. 



His Excellency 

Lieut. General Robertson 

Return of Vessels Employed in His Majesty's Service in the 
Captain Henry Chads Agent, with a Month's Hire annexed to 



No 



10 



15 



Vessels Names 



Peggy 

Caesar 

Sally 

Mary Anne 

Ranger 

Arnold 

Apollo 

Dianna 

Agnes 

John 

General Reidesel 

North 

Jupiter 

Mary 

Escape 

Neptune (Armed) 

Twenty one Extra Men. 

Peggy (Armed) 

Six Extra Men 

Gigg 

Rachael 



Sort 



Brig 

Sloop 

(I 

Brig 



Sloop 

u 

Schooner 
Sloop 
Ship 
Brig 
Sloop 

u 

Schooner 
Sloop 



Sloop 



Sloop 
Brig 



Masters 



Sam' Nesbitt 

Balfour... . 
Luttill 

Alex. Morrison . . 
Neale 

William Yonge. . 

James Camplin. . 

Edw'^ Ross 

Nat Proctor 

Edw^ Welchford. 

William Boys 

John Potty 

Eph'? Harvey.... 

Thomas Smith. . . 

Hugh Smith 

Stewart Ross 



George Elvine. 



Wm Weatherspoon 
Richd Brady 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 159 

tain Chads for the different Departments agreeable to the order 

• New York September 6th, 1781. 

last, I have the honor to transmit the Retmns of all the Vessels, 
Captain Chads Issues Certificates of Pay at the 17th of August 
to the Returns rendered to your Excellency for the information 

I have the Honor to be &c &c 

Thomas Skelton 



Quart' Master General's Department under the direction of 
each Vessel, Vizt: — from Copy rendered August 17th 1781. 



Tons 


Per 
Month 


Amount New York 
Currency 


Amount in Sterlg 
Dollars at 

4/8 






£ S d 


£ S d 


145 


13/ 




94 5 .. 


110 


a 




71 10 


126% 


u 




82 6 8 


144 


u 




93 12 . . 


117M 


u 




76 4 3 


1263/^ 


u 




82 4 6 


114 


u 




74 2 .. 


137% 


u 




89 9 8 


110 


u 




71 10 . . 


106% 


u 




69 6 8 


150 


u 




97 10 


130 


(I 




84 10 


135 


(( 




87 15 


122 


u 




79 6 


85 


u 




55 5 


1293^ 


16/ 




103 12 




120/ 




126 


102% 


16/ 




81 17 4 
36 


56 


13/ 




36 8 


144 


« 




93 12 



160 



PEOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



20 



Vessels Names 



Sort 



Masters 



25 



28 



30 



35 



40 



Falmouth.. 

Duncan 

Betsey 

Eagle 

Harlequin . . 

Sally 

Christopher 
Britannia. . 



Ship 
Brig 
Sloop 



Schooner 
Sloop 



John Christie 

Dunc^Nichol 

Mich' Grant 

Fran* Crawford. . 
Thos Glentworth , 

Wm Murray 

Fran* Beevin 

Will"^ Smith 



Mary Anne & 4 Men 

per day for the Vessel & 

Dove and 4 Men 

Pool and 4 Do 

Sir James Wallace 

Reprizal & 4 Men 

Baltimore & 4 Do 

Byron & 4 Do 

Black Joke & 4 Do 

Diligence & 4 Do 

Rachel and 3 Do 

Nancy & 4 Do 

Betsey & 4 Do 

Beaver 

Dennis Denices Boat & 2 

per day 

Commander in Chief's Bar 
Barge Attending Oflficer Co 

Men 

Whale Boat attending Stat 
Adjutant General's Barge 



Sloop 
4/ Curren 

Sloop 
Schooner 

Sloop 

Schooner 
Sloop 



Pettiagure 
Men at D 



Thos Elliott 

cy per day for the 

John Adams 

Jac'' Louzada 

Rog. Shannon 

Chas Lyon 

Luke Dixon 

Dune? White 

Rich^ Powdrill 

Jos Beattie 

Peter Femand 

Winant Wynants. . 
Jas Ballingtine. . . . 
Corn. Van Voorst. . 
enices Ferry 20/ 



ge 13 Men 
mmanding 



en Island 
7 Men . . . 



on Long Island 7 
5 Men 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 161 



Tons 


Per 
Month 


Amt. N. Y. 
Currency- 


Amt in Sterlg 
Dollars at 

4/8 


221 


8/ 




88 


8 




125 


13/ 




81 


5 




45>^ 


(( 




29 


11 


6 


453^ 


u 




29 


13 


8 


40 


u 




26 






603/^ 


(I 




39 


6 


6 


siH 


u 




53 


2 


9 


50M 


(( 




32 


19 


9 




Carried for 


ward 


£2066 


13 


3 




Amount br 


ought forward... 


2066 


13 


3 


30 


at 6d 


Curr*'y per Ton 








Men Ex . . . 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


28H 




45 7 6 


26 


9 


4^ 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


26 




37 10 


21 


17 


6 


29M 




46 6 3 


27 





3M 


30 




46 10 


27 


2 


6 


16 pr day 




24 


14 










30 


17 


10 








78 


45 


10 








42 


24 


10 








30 


17 


10 








42 


24 


10 





162 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No 



Vessels Names 



Sort 



Masters 



Paulus Hook Boat 7 Men 
Gen'l Robertson's Cockswa 
Batteaux Men and Scow M 

ter Master General's Sh 
Schooner Greyhound [ 

iBelo 
Schooner Delegate j 
Men employed in Sloops H 

Men 



in 1 Man 
en employ 
ip Yard 2 

nging to 

arlequin B 



ed about the Quar- 

9 Men 

6 Men 

Government 

4 Men 

etsey and Eagle 10 



Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in 
of Captain Henry Chads Agent, with a Month's hire annexed 



No 



10 



Vessels Names 



Speedwell 

Howe (Armed) 

Eight Extra Men.. . 

Polly (Armed) 

Twenty Extra Men 

Sally 

Swan 

Betsey 

Thomas 

Ranger 

Kent 

Cato 

Brooklyn 

Perfect 

iDianna 



ISort 



Sloop 



Schooner 



Sloop 



Schooner 



Masters 



John Johnston. 
WmBlewitt... 



Henry Imiis. 



Richd Chambers. 

Saml Marsh 

Nich Guignard . . 
Jon'' Hutchins. . . 
Elishua Davis. . . 
Wm Inkister .... 

John Wilson 

Alex Innis 

Wm White 

John Howland. . . 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 163 



Tons 


Per 

Month 


Amt. N. Y. 
Currency 


Amt in Sterlg 
Dollars at 

4/8 






42 
6 

174 
41 13 1 

24 

60 


24 6 
3 10 

101 10 
24 6 

14 

35 






Sterling 


£2732 8 111^ 



For Captain Henry Chads Agent 
Thomas Skelton. 



the Commissary General's Department under the Direction 
to each Vessel, Viz: — from Copy rendered August 17th 1781. 



Tons 


At what 


Amt. in N. Y. 


Amt 


in Sterl 


per Month 


Currency 


Dol. 


at 4/8 


893^ 


13/ 




£58 


1 4 


81M 


16/ 
120/ 




65 

48 


8 


68^ 


16/ 
120/ 




54 
120 


16 


57 


13/ 




37 


1 


60 






39 




52 






33 


16 


46 






29 


18 


55 






35 


15 


60 






39 




50 






32 


10 


60 






39 




60 






39 




56 






36 


8 



164 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No. 



"Vessels Names 



Sort 



Masters 



15 



Dove 

William 

Brompton & 4 Men. 
at 6d Currcy per 
Ton per day for 
the Vessel & 4/ 
Currcy per day for 
the men each .... 

Industry & 3 Men. . 

Refugee & 3 Men . . . 

Nixon & 3 Men 

Elk 

Three Sisters 



Schooner 
Sloop 



Moses Bears . . 
Jno Patterson. 
Jos Marsh . . . . 



Sloop 
Schooner 

u 

Sloop 



Thos Clarke 

John Saily 

Richd Baily 

Benj° Alder 1 Belonging to 
John Tyrrell/ Govern* 



Return of Vessels employed in His Majesty's Service in the 
Captain Henry Chads Agent, with a Month's hire armexed to 



No. 


Vessels Names 


Sort 


Masters 


1 


Three Friends 


Brig 
Schoon' 

Sloop 

a 


Fran' Kirk 




Hope 

Betsey 


Leml Douglass .... 
Wm Wallace 




St Andrew 


Geo Jefferson 


5 


Mary 


Gardner 




Free Mason 


Saml Eldrid 




Friends 


Peter Anderson. . . . 




William 


Wm Johnston 




Friendship 


W. Ward 


10 


Mohawke 


Wm Adams 




Happy Couple 


John Stanton Senr. 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 165 



Tons 


At what 
per Month 


Amt in N. Y. 
Currency 


Amt 
Dol. 


in Sterl 

at 4/8 




85 






55 


5 




60 






39 






30 
















46 10 


27 


2 


6 


28 




39 


22 


15 





25 




36 15 . . 


21 


8 


9 


293^ 




40 6 3 


23 


10 


3^ 


?6 Men 




36 


21 






Sterling 






£917 


14 


lOH 



For Captain Henry Chads Agent 
Thomas Skelton 



Barrack Master General's Department under the direction of 
each Vessel, Vizt: — from Copy rendered 17th August 1781. 



Tons 


At what 


Amt in N. Y. 


Amt in SterF 


per Month 


Currency 


Dollars at 4/8 


103 


13/ 




66 19 


1003^ 


u 




65 6 6 


69 






44 17 


97H 






63 10 9 


74 


13/ 




48 2 


87M 


u 




56 14 3 


65H 


u 




42 9 4 


76 


u 




49 8 


90 


u 




58 10 


50 


u 




32 10 


75 


u 




48 15 



16() 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



No. 


Vessels Names 


Sort 


Masters 




Peggy 


Sloop 

11 

u 
u 

Schooner 

u 

n per day 
the Men 


William May 

Peter Parker 




Susannah 




Defiance 


Silas Parry 

Giles Stanton 


15 


Generous Friends 


17 


York 

Clinton & 4 Men 


Saml Parry 

Philip Aeling 

for the Vessel and 
each 




at 6d Currency per To 
4/ Currency per Day for 



Return of Batteaux Men in the Quarter Master General's 



James Russel, Cockswain 
Robert Nairn, 



Thomas McDowell, 


3 Mo 


Thomas Elvin 


24 Mo 


Wilham Sutherland 


3 Mo 


Samuel Harris 


2 Mo 


Cornelius PubUckhover 


1 Mo 


John Cotton 


1 Mo 


Andrew Trouden 


1 Mo 


Edward Parker 


12 Mo 


Henry Mullan 


1 Mo 


John McKoy 


11 Mo 


Daniel Payne 


3 Mo 



4 Months £3 10 Sterling 
4 Months Do of Governor 

Robertson's Cutter 



14 Days 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 167 



Tods 


At what 


Amt in N. Y. 


Amt in Sterl Dollars 


per Month 


Currency 


at 4/8 


9634 


u 




62 17 9 


119 


u 




77 7 


56 






36 8 


101 






65 13 


124 






80 12 


30 












46 10 . . 


27 2 6 




Sterling 




£927 2 1 



For Captain Henry Chads, Agent 
Thomas Skelton 



Department. 




Daniel Prophet 


2 Mo 14 Da 


John Ham 


3 Mo 


John Wright 


3 Mo 


William Wilson 


3 Mo 


James Irving 


3 Mo 


Archibald Wier 


4 Mo 


John McLeod 


3 Mo 


John Maxwell 


3 Mo 14 Days 


Neal Clarke 


4 Mo 


Peter Waterson 


4 Mo 


Dennis Downey- 


3 Mo 


Leonard Arcus 


3 Mo 


George Vint 


3 Mo 



Perused the Commissary General's Accomits and 
Adjourned to Monday next. 

[i. e. 10th September] 



168 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

N. B. — There is no reference to the fol 
ings of the Board. They are not therefore 



Sir:— 

I have the honor of sending your Excellency a General 
Department within this District. 

The Muster Masters will likewise give in to the Board the 
bending the names of each Individual and the Number of 

I also send your Excellency a Return of Drivers, Horses and 
barked from hence for the Chesapeak upon the different Ex- 
Arnold and Colonel De Voit, which comprehends the whole 



His Excellency 

Lieut General Robertson. 

1st Enclosure 

General State of a Muster taken of Waggon, Masters, 
Horses and Waggons employed in the Quarter Master General's 
Excellency the Commander in Chief on the days and at the 



At New York 26th Aug 1781 

At the Six Mile Stone York Island the same day 

At Kings Bridge the same day 

At Brooklyn Long Island same day 

At the halfway House leading to Jamaica Long Island the 

same day 

At Paulus Hook 27th August 1781 

At Staten Island the same day 



Total. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



169 



lowing Letter or its Inclosure [9 in No] in the original Proceed- 
included here with the Business of any particular day. 

New York 1st September 1781. 

Abstract of a Muster taken of the Quarter Master General's 

particular Rolls as taken at the particular Posts compre- 
Horses, Waggons, Carts, &c. 

Waggons, that are upon Duty with the Corps that lately em- 
peditions under Major General Phillips, Brigadier General 
of the Department accounted for and paid in this District. 
I have the honor to be. 
Sir, &c &c 

Henry Bruen. 



Conductors, Clerks, Storekeepers, Artificers, Labourers, Drivers, 
Department in the District of New York, by order of His 
places following, Vizt: — 



1 

1 


u 

a 
o 
O 


to 

M 
u 
m 

O 


IE 
S-, 
O 

o 


IK 

< 


m 
O 




02 
<V 
GQ 
^^ 
O 


00 

a 

CD 

f 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels 


1 
1 


7 
1 
4 
5 

25 

2 


4 


4 


51 

14 
34 

11 

4 


17 

7 
22 


127 
34 

85 
20 

246 

4 

24 


352 

118 

249 

96 

892 

8 

85 


3 

67 
17 

150 

10 


122 
35 
55 
43 

63 

4 

14 


2 


44 


4 


4 


114 


46 


540 


1800 


247 


336 



170 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

We do hereby Certify that the above mentioned Two 
Storekeepers, One hundred and fourteen Artificers, Forty six 
appeared before us; and that the above One thousand eight 
three hundred and thirty six small waggons. Carts, Drays, 
Mustered by us at and on the above mentioned days and places. 
And that the said Horses, Waggons, &c with their Harness, to 
Allowing One Clerk absent on Duty, One conductor absent 
Waggon on Duty at Sandy Hook, one Driver two Horses one 
at Grass, and one on Duty belonging to the Troop of Guides 
the Morning of the Muster, and ten Horses lame and worn down 



Enclosure 2d 

Return of Drivers, Horses and Waggons that are with 

Drivers Names 

Jesse Scudder 

George Arnold 

George Richards 

Walter Lloyd 

Thomas Aw 

Hector McKenzie 

Alexander McKay 

Edward Rose 

James Carver 

John Sunderland 

Thomas Minton 

Donald McLeland 

Donald McLashie 

Peter Paul 

Jonathan Stoney 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 171 

Waggon Masters, Forty four Conductors, Four Clerks, Four 
Labourers, and five hundred and forty Drivers have personally 
hundred Horses, two hundred and forty seven large Waggons, 
Trucks, Timber Wheels, were also produced to us and were 
pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in Chief's Orders 
the best of our Judgment, are in good and serviceable Order, 
with leave, one lately deceased. One Driver two Horses one 
Waggon missing with the Loyal American Regiment, one Horse 
three Horses attached to the British Recruits having strayed 
with hard Service. 

Benj? Rix, Qu' M^ 17th Lt Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 

Joseph Gardner, Qu- M- 17th Lt Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters 

James Welch, Qu- M^ 17th Lt Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters 



the Corps to the Southward New York 23d August 1781. 



To whom attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


Attending on the Genl OflSicer 

comm£md« 

1st Batt? of Lt. Infantry 

u 
u 
a 
a 
u 
u 
u 
a 
a 
u 

2d Batt? Lt. Infantry 

u 


1 
11 


5 
22 


1 
11 


a 





172 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Drivers Names 



Henry Argrove 

John Hyde 

John McPherson 

Thomas Littman — 

George Boyle 

Thomas Black 

John Browne 

Ishmael Monday — 

Wm Hamilton 

Thomas McCormick. 

Thomas Farrier 

Thomas Savage 

William Sherrington. 

John Hunt 

Edward Tither 

William Rudkin 

William Smedley — 

Alex McDonald 

Alex Gilchrist 

And'' McMutry 

Peter Mascall 

James Ritchie 

John Hartlys 

James Barker 

Charles Clarke 

Alex McFarlin 

Robert Mcintosh . . . 



Thomas Pringle Senr. 
Thomas Pringle Jmir. 

Robert Inglis 

John McLoughUn 

Charles Salmon 



OF THE BRITISH ABMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 173 



To whom attached 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


2d Batt° Lt. Infantry 


10 
5 
5 

10 


20 
10 
10 

20 




« 




({ 




u 




u 




u 




« 


10 


17th Regiment of Foot 




« 




u 




u 




a 


5 


43d Regiment of Foot 




u 




a 




U 




a 


5 


76th Regiment Foot 

« 




« 




u 




u 




u 




a 




u 




u 




a 


10 






Carried forward 


42 


87 


42 


Brought forward 

80th Regiment 

« 


42 


87 


42 


(( 




u 




u 





174 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Drivers Names 



William Rippeth 

Neal McCormick 

Robert Young 

John Larmont 

Robert Oaks 

Jacob Harman 

Solomon Parent 

George Tucker 

William Gerrard 

Charles Jones 

Charles Gordon 

James Black 

Robert Green 

Cuff (a negro) 

Henry Shewend 

Rheinhard Hayse 

Martin Shelhase 

John Majoera 

Henry Shaade 

Nicholas Shonewalf 

John Freligh 

Conradt Weber 

Ernest Grosman 

Conradt Drossier 

Adam Shintnetzs 

Conradt Newhauser 

George Bauman 

Jacob Heintell 

John Geister 

Gotliel Kopky 

Casper Kerath 

John Tausher 

John Kurydorffer 

Christian Hartung 

Albruck Lantaback [or Lauterback], 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 175 



To whom attached 
80th Regiment 

u 
u 
u 
u 

Queen's Rangers 

u 
u 
(I 
u 
u 
u 
u 
u 

Regiment Prince Hereditaire in- 
cluding their Artillery 

a 
a 
u 
a 
u 

1st Regiment of Anspachs includ- 
ing their Artillery 

u 
a 
a 
u 
a 

2d Regiment of Anspachs includ 
ing their Artillery 

u 
a 
a 
a 
u 

Total 



Drivers 



10 



Horses 



20 



18 



25 



82 



26 



26 



Waggons 



10 



202 



82 



176 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Enclosure 3d 

Return of the Ship Carpenters, Joyners, Sawyers and Black 



Foremen 3 

Maurice Salt, Master Carpenter 

Thomas Dodge, Foreman 

Thom^ Jennings, Mastr Blacksmith 

Ship Carpenters 14 

Robert Baker Senr 
Alexander Ogilvie 
John De Groat 
Isaac Dodge 
John Ogden 
Rufus Handy 
William Sneeden 
Samuel Sneeden 
Jonathan Lawrence 
Robert Baker 
William Baker 
Thoma* Drake 
Simon Latham 
Peter De Groat 



Names of a working Party of the 22nd Regiment, who are 
ment in the Ship Yard— New York 26th August 1781. 

Serjiant Gilbert 
Corporal Foreman 
Hyram Murphy 
Robert Henry 
William Graham 
John Gaskin 
David Drisdell 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 177 

Smiths, employed in the Quarter Master General's Ship Yard. 

New York 26th August 1781. 

Caulkers 3 

John De Baptist 
Peter Noe 
Benjamin Dodge 

JOYNERS 2 

Amos Ansley 
Lewis Noe 

Six Sawyers 6 

Patrick Coyle 
John Hickey 
Gilbert McKenney 
Jesse Armstrong 
Samuel McCormick 
William Snyder 

Blacksmiths 3 

John Saunders 
Richard Brooks 
Israel Pell 

Total 31 Artificers 



Constantly employed in the Quarter Master General's Depart- 

Alexander Christy 
Joseph McCord 
John McFadden 
John Henry 
Cairn Cavenagh 
Robert Scott 
William Robertson 



178 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

I do Certify that the above mentioned Sixteen Ship Car 
smiths, and fourteen Labourers, have personally appeared 
above mentioned, pursuant to His Excellency the Commander 



Enclosure 4 

Return of Conductors, Drivers, Horses and Waggons in 
Several Corps at and near the Six Mile Stone. 



Men's Names 



Thomas Dalton 

Johannes Horn 

Monitz Umback 

Conradt Fulling 

Hartman Cloves 

Erich Braum 

Johannes Zell 

Thomas Arnold 

Conradt Erbeck 

Johannes Grundman. 

Johannes Shaffer 

Jacob Massett 

Henry Claus 

Adam Schade 

Conradt Apple 

George Leight 

Christopher Thomas. 

Geo. Wurschmidt 

Geo. Dittman 

Jacob Pepper 

Fredk Retberg 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 179 

penters three Caulkers, Two Joyners, Six Sawyers, Four Black- 
before me this day, and were Mustered by me at New York as 
in Chief's Orders. 

J. Welch, Q- M' 17th Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



the Quarter Master General's Department, attached to the 

26th August 1781. 



To Whom Attached 


£ 
B 

o 

1 


> 
Q 


O 

w 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels 
&c. 


Quart. Master General's Departm*. . . 


1 








Grenadier Batt"* Linsing for Baggage . 

u 
u 










u 

u 
u 




6 


12 


6 


Ditto for Artillery 




1 


17 


1 


Grenadier Batt'' Lengirke for Baggage . 
« 

« 










u 
u 
u 




6 


12 


6 


Ditto for Artillery 




1 


18 


1 


Grenad. Batf" Lowenstein for Baggage . 

u 
u 










a 
u 
u 




6 


11 


6 



180 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Men'3 Namea 



Henrick Kolle. . . . 

John Haber 

Henrick Gerlach . . 
James Wesdekind. 
George Masler — 

John Cock 

Henry Hellivig — 
Casper Ochler. . . . 



Alexander Dunbar. 

Lewis Kirby 

Ralph Cork 

Charles Swiney. . . , 

Jacob With 

George Caesar — 



I do hereby Certify that the within named Conductors and 
the above mentioned Number of Horses, small Waggons, Carts, 
four Drivers, One hundred and eighteen Horses, thirty five small 
to me, and were Mustered by me this day at the Six Mile Stone 
in Chief's Order, and that the said Number of Horses and 
are to the best of my Judgment in good and serviceable Order 
missing, having strayed the Morning of the Muster. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 181 



To Whom Attached 


i 

1 


> 

P 


en 

s 

o 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels 
&c. 


Ditto for Artillery 




1 

1 


13 
13 


1 


Grenadier Batf* Graff for Baggage . . 

a 
a 
a 
a 
u 

Ditto for Artillery 


1 






Carried forward 


1 


28 


103 


28 






Brought forward 


1 


28 
2 
4 


103 

4 

11 


28 


British Recruits 




u 




u 


2 


With the Engineers 




u 




u 


5 






Total 


1 


34 


118 


35 







Oliver Bourdett 

Wagg" Master General 

Drivers have personally appeared before me this day, and that 
Drays, Timber Wheels &e amounting to One Conductor, Thirty 
Waggons, Carts, Dray Timber Wheels &c were also produced 
as above mentioned, pursuant to His Excellency the Commander 
Waggons, Carts, Drays, Timber Wheels &c with their Harness 
byj allowing three Horses (attached to the British Guards) 

Jos. Gardner 

Qu' M^ 17th Lt. Dragoons 
Acting as Conmiy of Musters. 



182 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Enclosure 

Return of Waggon Masters, Conductors, Carpenters, Black- 
Wheels &c in the Quart- Master General's Department, at Fort 



Mens Names 



John Stuart, Waggon Master. 

James Morfitt 

Samuel Grant 

John Campbell 

BarzelUa Dodge 

William Owen Foreman 

John McKenna 

Peter Duck 

Henry Arrowsmith 

John Seaman 

Richard HolUnsby 

Robert TurnbuU 

Burchart Blosach 

Justice Weedright 

Henry Fisher 

Samuel Dowling 

PhiUp Shepherd 

George Wier 

Jacob Chryst 

Thomas Bermitt 

Aaron Brown 

John Brown 

John Mullen 

John Miller 

John Anhalt 

James Jackson 

Dennis SulUvan 

Richard Price 

Edward Colville 



To whom attached 



Conductors Qu! M' Gen^'^ Dept 
a 



Carpenters Ditto. 



Black Smiths Ditto. 



Drivers Do attending on the 
Engineer and Commissary 
General's Department 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 183 



smiths, Drivers, Horses, Waggons, Carts, Drays, Timber 
Knyphausen 26th August 1781. 



a 
o 
U 



o3 



10 



a 



w 



^ 



s -^ 

o oQ 23 



184 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Mens Names 



John Collins 

Peter Gallahan 

Anthony Rose 

Anthony Ross 

Ceasar Disaway. . . 

Robert Allego 

Edward Thompson 

Peter Jones 

James Barret 

Titus Eldridge 

James Long 

Nicholas Hyer 

John Thread Gold. 



John Parks 

Henry Milton 

Abraham Bayard. 

Cato Forsythe 

Samuel Sobrisko . . 

WiUiam Finn 

Anthony Waters . . 

Thomas Dick 

Peter Lagra 

Peter Johnson . . . . 



Pontoon Train 

Nicholas Wiedeman. 
John Schnider 



To whom attached 



Drivers,— Qur M' Gen^'^ Dep't., 
attending on the Engineer and 
Commissary General's De- 
partment 



Carried forward. 



Brought forward 

Drivers Qu- M- General's De- 
partment Attending the En- 
gineer's & Comm^ General's 
Department 



Lieut. Gen- Losberg. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 185 



E 

1 

s 

§ 


£ 
<v 

a 

a, 


to 

"a 

CO 


no 

Q 


00 

a; 

00 

*-■ 

o 


CO 

c 

O 
bO 

tsC 
03 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels, 
&c. 








23 


128 


30 


3 


4 


10 


4 


23 


128 


30 


3 


4 


10 


4 


23 

11 

2 


128 
4 


30 
37 


3 

2 
2 



186 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Mens Names 



John Folsenberg 

John Shilling 

George Groues 

George Rehtor 

Joseph Alsop 

Edward Forest 

John Reeves 

William Pitt 

David Brown 

Jonas Hull 

Thomas Hawthorn. . . 

Thomas Twigg 

Mathew Anderson . . . 

John McCulloch 

David Gasken 

William Key 

John Derrim 

Adam Bamn 

Nicholas Dopser 

Hans Chart Rudolph 

Henry Junger 

Jacob Dickhaud 

Wilhelm Wintered... 

Casper Katzman 

Joh Jost Gurthell .... 

Peter Segar 

Christopher Holtz . , . 

Conradt Schenk 

George Meyer 

Peter Gaberling 

Johannes Griess 



Maj^ Gen! DeGosen. 
38th Regiment 



To whom attached 



57th Regiment. 



54th Regiment. 



Regiment De Donop for Baggage 



Ditto for their Artillery 

Regim* LosbergJunrforBaggage 



Ditto for artillery 

Carried forward. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 187 



E 
1 

3 
13 

6 


£ 

a 

1 


m 

a 

o 

OS 


1 

P 


1 


ID 

f-3 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels, 
&c. 






•• 


2 


4 




2 


• • 


•• 


• • 


5 


10 




5 


• • 






5 
5 

6 
1 

6 
1 


10 
10 

12 
13 

12 
13 




5 
5 

6 
1 

6 

1 


4 


10 


4 


67 


216 


67 


38 



188 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Mens Names 


To whom attached 


John Hartmen 


Brought forward 

Hessian Yagers for Baggage. . . 

u 


Christopher Sukl 

John Week 


Carl Ejckner 

Peter Dooring 

John Laut 


u 
u 
u 


John Baltzer 


a 


John Dorsler 


u 


Rhynhard Burwend 


u 


PhiHp Moller 

John Casper 


Ditto for Artillery 


John Krim 


Anspach Yagers 

u 


George Book 


John Crouse 


a 


Andrew McGregor 

John Murphy 

William Page 1 

Peter Yarson J 


Mr Skinner, Surveyor 

Mr Taylor Do 

Mr Hill Engineer 

Detach* Queen's Rangers & 
Troops of Hussars 




Total 



I do Certify that the above named Waggon Master, Four 
Drivers, Personally appeared before me this day and that the 
amounting to two hundred and forty nine Horses Sixty seven 
and Timber Wheels &c, have also appeared before me and were 
tioned. Pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in Chief's 
perfectly serviceable, and that the Waggons &c with their 
&c with their Harness are to the best of my Judgment in good 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 



189 



03 

1 

-a 
cs 
o 
O 




'a 


£ 

a; 

D 


£ 
o 


biD 


Small Waggons, 
Carts, Drays, 
Timber Wheels, 
&c. 


4 


10 


4 


67 

9 

2 

3 

1 
1 

2 


216 

18 

6 

3 
1 

1 

4 


67 


38 

9 
1 

3 

1 
1 
2 


4 


10 


4 


85 


249 


67 


55 



Geo. Stewart 

Ass^ U.y Q'. M'. Gen! 

Conductors, ten Carpenters, Four Blacksmiths, Eighty five 
above Number of Horses, Waggons Carts, Drays, Trucks &c, 
large Waggons, fifty five small Waggons, Carts, Drays, Trucks 
Mustered by me this day at Fort Knyphausen as above men- 
Orders, and that the said Number of Horses appears to be 
Harness are to be perfectly serviceable, and that the Waggons 
and Serviceable Order. 

Jos. Gardner, Qu- M^ 17th Lt. Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters 



190 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Enclosure 

Muster Roll of Conductors, Clerks and Storekeepers in 
the Quarter Master General's Department, Stationed on Long 
Island Brooklyn 26th August 1781. 



Conductor's Names 


Where to Assemble 


1 Jehu Hollingsworth 


Brooklyn 


2 James Davidson 


« 


3 George Brown 


u 


4 John Stump 


a 


5 Henry Jones 


u 







J. GiLFILLAN 

A. D. Q W. Gen'. 

I do hereby Certify that the above named Conductors, 
Clerks, and Storekeepers have personally appeared before me 
this day, and were Mustered by me at Brooklyn as above 
mentioned. Pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in 
Chief's Orders. 

Given under my hand at Broqklyn this 26th day of 
August 1781. 
Benj"^ Rrx, 

Qu^ M' 17th Lt. Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



Muster Roll of the Artificers employed in the Quarter 
Master General's Department, Stationed on Long Island, 
Brooklyn 26th August 1781. 



Artificer's Names 


Profession 


Where to Assemble 


1 
2 
3 
4 


William Hannah, M-- 

John McKinley 

Joseph Thomas 

John Wilson 


Carpenters 




5 
6 

7 
8 
9 


Eneas Roberts ' 

Dougal Campbell 

John McGowan, Senr. . 

George Johnson 

Thomas Cussons 


Brooklyn 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 191 



Artificer's Names 


Profession 


Where to Assemble 


10 Joseph Davis 

11 John Dean 


Carpenters 




12 John Stennix 




13 John McGowen Junr. 

14 Stephen Goldsmith . . . 

15 James Borras 

16 Wilham Patterson >■ 

17 Dempsey Slaughter. . . 

18 Sack Covrall 


Brooklyn 


19 Alexander Ellens 

20 Levens Waters 

21 Francis Moore 

22 George Wilkinson 




1 Joseph Fox, Master 

2 Isaac Roop 


Blacksmiths 




3 Jeremiah Hayes 

4 Callen Rhodes 

5 Boston Nayle 1 

6 James Pursell 

7 Minas Van SuckUn . . . 

8 James Humphry 

9 Jonathan Jones 


Brooklyn 


1 John Marr ] 

2 Wilham Butler [ 

3 Michael Oat j 


Collar Makers 


Brooklyn 



J. GiLFILLAN 

A. D. Q. M. General 
I do Certify that the above named Artificers, amounting to 
Twenty two Carpenters, Nme Black Smiths, and Three Collar 
Makers, have personally appeared before me this day and were 
Mustered by me at Brooklyn as above mentioned, Pursuant to 
His Excellency the Commander in Chief's Orders. 

Given under my hand at Brooklyn this 26th day of 
August 1781. 
Benjn Rex, Q"^ Master 17th Lt. Dragoons 
Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 



192 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Enclosure 

Muster Roll of the Drivers and Return of the Horses, 
wheels, &c in the Quarter Master General's Department, 

Brooklyn Long Island 26th August 1781. 



Where to 
Assemble 



Brooklyn 



Brooklyn 



To whom 
Attached 



?j a o 43 

,„ ^ to O) h 
D< r'^ -*^ 

^< 5 S « 
a> o "-shoH 

O • -; 3 fl) «, 



Guides & 
Pioneers 
Garrison Batt° 



Driver's Names 



James Bainacan 

Jupiter Godwin 

John Slaytor 

Lambert Trusler 

Ishmael Warring 

Pompey Colt 

Wally Bambury 

Michl McClasky 

Abm Reubens 

Jos^ AUcott 

Adam Wright 

Jerem. Hallett 

John Ryerson 

Peter Johnson 

Dav*^ Basken 

Wally Harring 

Jacob Beach 

Brought forward, 

Sol Curtis 

J Wm Richie 

\ Alex' Grant 

Total 



I do Certify that the above mentioned number of Waggoners 
Number of Horses, Waggons Carts, Drays, Trucks, Timber 
seventeen large Waggons, forty three small Waggons, Carts, 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 193 



Large Waggons, Small Waggons, Carts, Drays, Trucks, Timber 
Stationed on Long Island as undermentioned. 



No. of 
Drivers 


No. of 
Horses 


No. of 

Large 

Waggons 


No. of Small 

Waggons, Carts 

Drays, Trucks, 

Timber Wheels &c 


17 


90 


17 


40 


17 
1 
2 


90 
2 

4 


17 


40 
1 
2 


20 


96 


17 


43 



J. GiLFILLAN 

A. D. Qr M' Gen! 

have personally appeared before me this day, and that the above 
Wheels &c amounting to Twenty Waggoners, ninety six Horses, 
Drays Trucks, Timber Wheels &c have also appeared before me, 



194 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



and were Mustered by me this day at Brooklyn as above men- 
Orders. And that the said Horses (seven sick and lame ex- 
Ac with their Harness, are to the best of my Judgment in good 
Given under my hand at Brooklyn the 26th day of August 



Enclosure 

Muster Roll of Labourers employed in the Quarter Master 
General's Department, Stationed on Long Island. 

Brooklyn 26th August 1781. 



Labourer's Names 


Where to Assemble 


1 George Baxter 

2 Lewis Lands 




3 John McLelland 




4 Paul McPherson ^ 

5 Jacob Lambuson 


Brooklyn 


6 Toby Samms 

7 Dennis McDermitt 









J. GiLFILLAN 

A. D. Q. M^ General 

I do Certify that the above Seven Labourer's have per- 
sonally appeared before me this day and were Mustered by me, 
at Brooklyn as above mentioned. Pursuant to His Excellency 
the Commander in Chief's Orders. 

Given under me hand at Brooklyn this 26th day of August 
1781. 

Benj'? Rix, Qu' M' 17th Lt. Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters 

Monday 10th September 1781 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Thursday. 
Present His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
Lieutenant General Campbell 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Honb'« Andrew Elliott Esquire 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 195 

tioned, Pursuant to His Excellency the Commander in Chief's 
cepted) appear to be perfectly serviceable, and that the waggons, 
and serviceable Order. 
1781. 

Benj"? Rix, Q- M- 17th Lt. Dragoons 

Acting as Comm^ of Musters. 

Perused the State of No 3 of the Quarter Master General's 
Department. Sent for Major Bruen and gave him the said 
State, also the Comparative View No 10, to Purchase or Hire 
from which he is to make out an Estimate in the same stile 
according to his Ideas. 

Then adjourned to Thursday next at 10 o'clock. 

Thursday 13th September 1781. 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Monday. 
Present His Excellency Lieutenant General James Robertson 

Lieutenant General Campbell 

Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 

Brigadier General Birch 

The Hon''J« Andrew EUiott Esq 



Received a Return from Colonel Crosbie of the Vessels in 
the Barrack Master General's Department as follows: — 

Return of Transports employed in the Barrack Master 
General's Department. 



Vessel's Names 



Brig Three Friends . . . 

Schooner St Andrew 

" William 

« York 

Sloop Happy Couple. . 

« Peggy 

" Friendship 

" Susannah 

" Generous Friend 



Tonnage 



103 



^4 

76 

124 

75 

90 
119 
101 



Where they are at present. 



Lloyds Neck 



Haerlem 



196 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Vessel's Names 



Schooner Hope 

« Betty 

" Mary 

" Freemason. 

" Friends — 

« Clinton. . . . 

Sloop Mohawk . . . 

" Defiance . . . 




Where they are at present. 



Haerlem 
u 



New York, North River 

" East River 

Narrows Long Island 



New York 23d August 1781 
Wm Crosbie 

B. M. G. 

Major Bruen not having brought in the Calculations and 
State of Expences of keeping up the Horses, Waggons & Vessels 
The Board adjourned to Monday next at 10 o'clock. 

13th September 1781. 
D' Su-;— 

I am getting fair Copies of a variety of Estimates and Papers 
which Major Robertson and myself think necessary to lay 
before the Board which can't be finished sooner than this night. 
To morrow if you please I shall have the honor of laying them 
before Your Excellency and the other Gentlemen. 
I am with great respect, &c &c 

H. Bruen 

His Excellency 

Lieut. Gen- Robertson. 

Monday 17th September 1781 
The Board met agreeable to Adjournment last Thursday. 
Present His Excellency Lieut. Gen. Robertson 
Brigadier General the Earl of Lincoln 
Brigadier General Birch 
The Honb'« Andrew Elliott l 

& [Esq's 

The Hon^ie Henry White J 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 197 

Received and Read a Letter from Majors Bruen & Robertson 
of 14th September with Sundry papers, Viz: — 

New York 14th September 1781 
Sir:— 

In obedience to the Commands of the Board of which Your 
Excellency is President, we have before us the Papers you were 
pleased to desire we should give our opinion upon, intitled "a 
Comparative View to purchase or to Hire Vessels, Horses and 
Waggons employed at present in the different Departments." 
It is there supposed that six Months hire is more than sufficient 
to purchase all the Vessels, Horses, Waggons and Carts so hired; 
by which means a great saving would be made to Government 
in the Expences of these Departments. 

After considering the View with care and attention and after 
the fullest Investigation of the different Articles as there stated 
added to the informations received from the Proprietors of 
those Articles with respect to their Value, and the heavy 
expences attending the keeping them in repair and fit for service, 
which must be the case whether they belong to Government or 
to Individuals (which charges are entirely omitted in the View 
before us) likewise from the information of several respectable 
Merchants and Men of Business and Probity, conversant from 
experience in these Articles, we have been enabled to lay before 
Your Excellency the annexed States No 1 and 2 which differ it 
is true very much from the Comparative View; but being 
founded upon matters of fact, we presume from them it will 
appear that the present mode which has hitherto been followed 
by Government, in hiring rather than becoming contractor for 
the different Articles of expence attending the publick Depart- 
ments is not attended with the bad consequences that have been 
suggested, on the contrary from our experience in carrying on 
every part of the Business relative to the supplies furnished by 
the Quarf Master General's Department, we are convinced it 
will be found the most effectual and Oeconomical of any that 
could be adopted. 

There is no Man conversant in business or that is capable of 
judging of human Nature who can suppose that a contract held 
by the Publick can or will be executed with that Oeconomy care 
and attention as when the Interest of Individuals are imme- 



198 PROCEEDINGS OP A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

diately concerned, nor could it almost be possible for the Head of 
any Department, let his zeal and attention be ever so great, to 
see that strict justice was done in the purchasing of such a va- 
riety of articles as the Land and Water Carriage of an Army 
require, especially in this Country. 

For these reasons we may humbly suppose that Government 
have almost always judged it a proper Measure to enter into 
contract with Individuals for whatever supplies they have 
wanted, which must have been approved of from long Experence 
to be the best plan. 

At the period when the present mode was approved of, under 
His Excellency Sir William Howe's Command there was great 
reason to imagine that the War would not have been of long 
duration, which we humbly conceive to have been one of the 
inducements that led His Excellency to adopt it, added to this 
the then recent instance of the Expences incurred from the loss 
of the Provision Train Horses purchased by Government and 
sent out to this Country from Britain under the care of Mr. 
Clarke. Also from the uncertainty there was of being supplied 
by hireing Waggons and Horses from the Country as occasion 
required, which had been frequently tried and found impossible, 
and which can be proved from incontestible Evidences. 

As your Excellency in a Note we have before us which 
accompanied the Comparative View seems to entertain a Doubt 
of the necessity of keeping up the Horses and Waggons in the 
Quarter Master General's Department, we beg leave to refer to 
our former Letters, wherein we informed your Excellency and 
the Board of their being in constant useful Employ, and at the 
same time ready for immediate Service when required; in order 
to corroborate what we have said upon that subject, we beg 
leave to enclose a Copy of an Order No 3 lately received through 
the Adjutant General, similar to others we have received upon 
many former Occasions. Also two Letters No 4 & No 5 from 
the Barrack Master General and from the Commanding En- 
gineer. We are sorry we cannot have the Commissary General's 
Sentiments on the same subject which his bad state of health 
prevents his doing in answer to a letter we wrote to him upon 
that head. Likewise a letter No 6 being an Answer to a Letter 
written to the Quarter Master General of the Hessian Troops 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 199 

upon the subject of lessening the Number of Horses and Wag- 
gons attached to the Hessian Corps. 

With respect to the Notes in a Paper laid before the Board 
entitled "a sketch of the Quarter Master General's Depart- 
ment" We must refer to Captain Chad's Contingent Bill for 
the charge of Vessels and Extra Seamen. 

As to the Artificers and Labourers belonging to the Depart- 
ment and paid by Government, they are employed in cutting 
and Sawing Lumber, also Fuel for the Troops encamped, by 
which a very considerable saving is made to Government; as it 
would otherwise be obliged to be purchased at the Market price. 
And for a more particular detail of the Variety of Business done 
by them, we beg leave to refer to our Letters of the 16th and 17th 
August last which enumerate the different Services and Branches 
belonging to the Department. 

With respect to Waggon Masters, Conductors, Clerks, Store 
keepers and Inspectors of Ferries, it would be impossible to 
carry on the Business of the Army and the duties of the De- 
partment without their Assustance. 

Upon the whole we only beg leave to repeat what we have 
already said in our Letters laid before Your Excellency and the 
Board — that we are ready to follow whatever plan you in your 
better Judgments shall think proper to adopt for the good of 
the Service. And we have the honor to be with the greatest 

* Your Excellency's 

Most obedient and Most humble Servants, 
Henry Bruen 
Arch" Robertson 
His Excellency 
Lieut. Gen. Robertson 

Enclosure No. 1 — 

D' Comparative View to purchase or hire Horses, Waggons, 
Carts, &c in the Quarter Mast General's Department 
To 840 Large Horses at 25 Sterling at 4/8 

Guin^ each £22868 13 4 

398 Middling sized " 

at 20 " 8667 11 1 

735 Small " at 15 " 12005 .... 43539 4 5 



200 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



250 large Waggons at £40 

Sterl« each £10000 

367 SmaU « at £20 

SterUng each 7340 



Sterling at 4/8 



17340 



60879 4 5 
Quarterly Expences of the above As nearly as 
can be ascertained at present in the pur- 
chase of Lumber, Plank, Mettle Waggon 
Boxes, Iron, Cordage, Pitch, Tar, Turpen- 
tine, Paint, Oyl, Slush, Nails, Leather, Sheep 
Skins, Bridle Bitts, Oznabrigs, Russia Duck, 
Twine, Thread, Hair, Iron Chains, Bees- 
wax, Rozin, Chalk, Harness Buckles and 
collar Maker's Tools 

Carried forward £60879 4 5 

Brought forward 60879 4 5 

Horses purchased to replace those lost by dis- 
eases, such as Glanders, Farcy, Staggers, &c 
and the several Casualties attending the 
Train of an Army, have amounted to one 
third in each year. The pay or premium 
given to Men employed in different parts of 
the Continent in buying the best Horses for 
the large Teams (which kind of Horses can't 
be had at ever so large a price within these 
Lines) has been very great and attended 
with considerable losses and expences from 
the great risk necessarily run in procuring of 
them. Also the pay of Overseers and Men 
entrusted with the care of Horses, Waggons 
and their Stores. Likewise the pay of 620 
Waggoners, paid from 2/ to 4/ New York 
Currency pr day each, the whole will 
amount from one Quarter to another upon 
an average to 25185. . 



£86064 4 5 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 201 

1781 Sterling at 4/8 

March 31 By Paid the hire of Drivers, 
Horses and Waggons from 1st 
January to this date amount- 
ing to £46609 10 New York 
Currency is SterUng at 4/8. . £27188 17 6 



Carried forward £27188 17 6 

Brought forward £27188 17 6 

Ballance 58875 6 11 



£86064 4 



Continued 

N. B. — The Ballance in favor of the Contractors Quarterly 
is £2003 17 6 Sterling which allows them about £13 percent 
Interest on the Capital Sum of £60879 4 5 Sterling advanced. 
If the whole are purchased for Government, it will be found that 
the difference between the first Cost and Hire will only afford 
Government to become the Proprietor in seven Years and seven 
Months exclusive of Interest and Exchange upon the Principal 
Sum to be advanced. And that only with a Proviso that the 
persons entrusted with the management and care of them, act 
with as much fidelity, Zeal, and attention as if they were them- 
selves the Proprietors. 



Enclosure No 2 

Dr — Comparative View to purchase or hire Vessels in the 

Quarter Master General's Department 

To 10 Armed Brigs & Sloops at £1200 Sterling 

each 12000 

4 Armed Dispatch Boats at 600 Sterl« 

each 2400 

34 Sloops & Schooners at 500 Sterl* each 17000 

14 Small Vessels at 225 Sterl^ each 3150 

To Portage Bills and Charges for 3 Months on 
10 Armed Vessels one with another at 

£600 Sterls 6000 



202 PKOCEE DINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

To Portage Bills and Charges for 3 Months on 
4 Dispatch Boats one with another at 

£220 Sterle 880 

To Portage Bills and Charges for 3 Months on 
34 Vessels one with another at £166 10 10 

Sterling 5662 8 4 

To Portage Bills and Charges for 3 Months on 
14 Small Vessels of 30 Tons & under, one 

with another at £70 8 9 Sterling. 986 2 6 



Sterling at 4/8 £48158 10 10 

1781 

March 31st By Hire paid for 10 Armed Brigs 
& Sloops and 4 Dispats from 

1st Jany to this date £5380 11 9 

By Hire paid for 34 Vessels from 
1st January to this date 
Deducting therefrom 3 Losses 

by Captures is £12750 17 1 

By Hire paid for 14 Small 

Vessels from " to « 1911 15 3 

N.Y. Currency £14662 12 4 = 8553 3 11 
Ballance 34244 15 2 

Sterling at 4/8 £48158 10 10 



N. B. — It will appear from the above State, on a presump- 
tion that the Vessels do not incur any extraordinary expence in 
the loss of Anchors, Cables, Boats, Sails or Spars and a number 
of other Casualties which every Vessel in the Service actually 
experiences, perhaps twice or thrice in the course of a Winter 
that it will be Twenty one Years and four Months before they 
clear their first Cost, without including the Interest and Ex- 
change on the Money advanced. Any if any remarkable 
losses in these expensive Materials should happen, which in the 
Course of service must inevitably be the case, under the most 
careful managers, the time must be proportionably longer. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 203 

The Changes upon Vessels depend so much upon Circum- 
stances, that the Expences attending any one particular Vessel 
can never be the same for two Quarters together. 

Instances can be given in each Quarter when the Hire upon 
several Vessels are less than the Expenditures. The above 
Calculations are therefore made upon an average of the whole. 



Enclosure No 3. — 

September 3d, 1781 
Sir:— 

The Commander in Chief desires you will have Waggons 
ready to carry twenty days Provision for eight Thousand Men, 
and also Horses and Carriages ready for the Pontoons or Flat 
Boats as His Excellency shall direct, I must request you will be 
good enough to inform me what Number of Waggons and 
Carriages will be necessary for this Service, and at what time 
they will be ready to move. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 

01. DeLancey 
Adjt General 
Major Bruen 

D. Q. M' Gen! 

New York 3d September 1781. 
Sir:— 

I have the honor of receiving your letter of this date sig- 
nifying His Excellency the Commander in Chief's Order for a 
Provision Train to carry twenty days provisions for eight 
thousand Men, also Horses and Carriages for the Pontoons or 
Flat Boats. 

I shall immediately call in those Waggons from the different 
Departments with whom they are at present employed, they 
shall be ready at a Moments Warning to proceed when ordered. 

The Drivers, Horses and Carriages for the Pontoon Train 
are also in readiness. There are thirty eight Carriages and a 
hundred and forty eight Horses for this last Duty, and two 
hundred large Waggons with four Horses to each Waggon for 



204 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

the former. The whole will be collected and ready to move by 
to morrow. 

I have the honor to be, &c &c 

Henry Bruen. 
Major DeLancey 
Ad jut General 

Enclosure No 4. — 

New York September 3d, 1781 
Gentlemen : — 

In answer to yours of the 23d ulto I am to acknowledge the 
very great benefit which has resulted to the Service within my 
Department upon Long Island from the number of Horses and 
Waggons furnished by the Quarter Master General's Depart- 
ment, not only for drawing considerable quantities of wood to 
the Landings to be shipped to New York, but also into the 
Magazines at Brooklyn. It is also my opinion from the fre- 
quent disappointments I have met with from the Inhabitants 
in almost every instance, where the publick service has required 
the aid of their Horses and Waggons, that it is owing to the 
assistance I have received from the Quarter Master General's 
Department on Long Island that I have been enabled to give 
dispatch to the publick Business of that District. And I am 
also convinced, that the Inhabitants can never upon any 
occasion give that assistance to the Departments of the Army 
which the Exigencies of Government frequently require. 

I have likewise at your request enquired of the Gentlemen 
employed in my Department, before my appointment and find 
that in the winter 1779 & 1780 it was principally owing to the 
assistance given by the Horses and Waggons in the Quarter 
Master General's Department, and the exertions of Major 
Savage who then conducted the Train on Long Island, that the 
Troops in New York were kept from suffering thro' the want of 
fuel. 

I am with great respect 

Genf^. &c 

Wm Crosbie 
Majors Bruen & Robertson 
Depy Qu' M- Generals. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 205 

Enclosure No. 5 — 

New York 7th September 1781 
Gentlemen : — 

I have had the honor of receiving a Letter from you re- 
questing my opinion of the Services performed by the Quarter 
Master General's Department in the Waggon line, in carrying 
on the works in the Engineer Department, during my Command. 

I answer with the greatest readiness and pleasure that for 
upwards of three Years we have been at all times most amply 
supplied with Waggons and Horses from the Quarter Mast 
Generals Department, both for collecting and transporting the 
Materials used in constructing the Works, carried on in the 
different Posts; and that they have been constantly employed. 

The Services performed by your Department have been 
most extensive and laborious, particularly at the Lines of Kings- 
bridge, when for many Months it required at least the daily 
labor of 160 or 200 Horses for the Common Transport of 
Materials, from very distant points. The works of Long Island, 
with the constant call upon you, from that quarter for the 
immediate supply of every other point, are evident proofs of the 
utility and absolute necessity of the existence of such a Depart- 
ment as that of the Qu^ Master General's. 

The Springs of your Department are, and I can safely say 
have always been so very active, that when we have expected 
the greatest labour and difficulty in the service, it has become 
easy and pleasant. I say therefore in few words, that the 
Service could not have been carried on nor could the Engineer 
Department have existed without the constant assistance of the 
Quarts Master General. 

You will pardon me for saying, perhaps too abruptly that 
the idea of being supplied by Country Waggons, hired occasion- 
ally is ridiculous. 

Our late and present demands upon you are many; I believe, 
to the amount of ten or more Brigades. They are most usefully 
employed, which any Man may see by taking the Circuit of this 
Island and its Dependencies. 

As I only speak in general terms, I must beg leave to refer 
you for the particular Services of your Department, in our Line, 
to Captain Parker and Lieut. Fyers Engineers, and to Captain 



206 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Sproule Assistant Engineer, the only Gentlemen now upon the 
spot. They will most readily, I dare swear vouch for more than 
I have said. 

I have the honor to be, &c &c 

Alex?* Mercer, 

Comm^ Engineer. 
Majors Bruen & Robertson, 
Dep. Qu' M'^ General. 



Enclosure No 6. — 

New York 14th May 1781. 
Sir:— 

According to your request, made by order of His Excellency 
General Robertson, I have suggested to His Excellency General 
Knyphausen the idea of lessening the number of orderly Wag- 
gons attached to the several Hessian Regiments. With due 
deferrence to higher Judgement and orders, His Excellency is of 
opinion and bids me represent to you, that the number of these 
Waggons is so closely proportionate to the exigencies of the 
Troops as to admit of no deminution unconnected with ob- 
struction of the Service. 

There is but one Waggon with two Horses pr Company 
barely sufficient for transporting the Tents for the Men and 
officers, in so much that the necessary Baggage of the latter, 
little as it is, encreases the load rather beyond the Capacity of 
the conveyance. 

The one Waggon for the Staff allotted for the Baggage of 
the Commanding Officer, the Pay Master's and Surgeon's Chests 
with their Baggage, and that of the Chaplain and Waggon 
Master, is still more surcharged, and would be entirely unable 
to answer the demand if the remaining Waggon allotted to each 
Detachment of artillery, which is less burthened, was not made 
use of to ballance the weight. 

The Commanding Officers of the Regiments indeed have 
made several applications to His Excellency General Knyp- 
hausen to procure a separate Waggon for them, as customary in 
European Wars, where they are allowed a travelling Carriage 
besides, in order to assist sick or wounded officers. But His 
Excellency from consciousness of the difficulties attending the 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 207 

encrease of Horses and Baggage in this Country always declined 
the proposal. You will be pleased to submit these Circum- 
stances to further consideration. 

I acknowledge the honor of your Letter of Yesterday's date, 
and I readily agree to your proposal of leaving the Artillery and 
Waggon Horses wanting for the several Corps, at the Pastures 
on Long Island till further Emergencies, the propriety being 
obvious. 

I have the honor &c &c 

COCKENHAUSEN. 

Colonel & Q' M": General 

The Board proposed that Major Drummond should take the 
above Papers to make his Remarks upon, for their perusal and 
when ready to inform His Excellency the President of this 
Board; which Major Drummond agreed to; then the Board 
Adjourned themselves till they are informed of his being ready 
to lay before them his Remarks. 

Return of Batteaux, Gun Batteaux and Scows belonging 
to the Quarter Master General's Ship Yard or Department. 

New York 19th September 1781. 
2 Batteaux left by Queen's Rangers at Staten Island 
2 " With Refugees Bergen Point 

2 " with Refugees up the North River 
1 " with the Garrison at Paulus Hook 

1 " sent to the Brunswick Troops when at Brooklyn, 

not returned 
1 " with Major Steir Denices Ferry 

1 " sent to Major Cuffe at Brooklyn not returned 

1 " with the 17th Light Dragoons 

1 " with the Qu- M^ General's Department at Great 

Neck 
1 " with the Qu^ M^ General's Department at 

Brooklyn. 
1 " sent to the Sloop Neptune and left at Staten 

Island. 
1 " with the associated LoyaUsts up the sound. 

3 " with the Qu- M' General's Department at 

Haerlem. 



208 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

2 " with the Qu' M^ General's Department at 

Hallett's Cove 
1 " with the Loyal Forresters on Barren Island. 

28 " on Board different Transports 

37 " at the Qu^ M^ General's Ship Yard. 

86 Batteaux in and about New York. 

1 Batteaux with Refugees Bergen Point 4 

1 " with Refugees up the sound 12 

3 " at the Qu' M^ General's Ship Yard 12 

1 Boat left by Queen's Rangers on Staten Island. 4 

1 " Sent to the Sloop Neptune when at Staten 

Island 4 

2 « With Refugees at Yellow Hook 9 

2 Mantellet " on Board Ships North River 12 

1 Half Galley Gun Boat at Princes Bay 3 

1 Boat at the Navy Yard 

13 Gun Batteaux and Boats in and about New York 

3 Scows with the Commissary General at Haerlem 

1 " with the Qu' M^ General's Department at 

Hallets Cove 

1 " on Board the Thetis Transport 

2 " at the Quarter M' General's Ship Yard. 
7 Scows in and about New York. 

N. B. — The above are exclusive of a Number sent on the 
several Expeditions to the Southward. There are two Bat- 
teaux lost from the transports laying near Denyces Ferry in 
the late Gale & six more on the Expedition to New London. 

Rich'' Brady. 

New York November 20th 1781. 
Sir:— 

In consequence of my Commission as Commissary of the 
Pubhck Accounts of this Army, and further Instructions from 
the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, I had the 
honor of presenting my ideas on the subject to His Excellency 
the Commander in Chief, who was pleased to constitute the 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 209 

Board at which you, Sir, preside, in order to promote every 
enquiry necessary to ascertain the several points in question. 
An Extimate or Comparative View, which I had the honor to 
lay before the Board, has been contrasted with one of con- 
siderably higher expence, and a conclusion drawn, apparrently 
in favour of the latter. The investigation of the objects of my 
Commission rendered it necessary to draw information from 
various sources, in searching for which I have met with many 
retarding difficulties. Urged by considering the great length of 
time elapsed since my arrival, during which this Business has 
lain Dormant and the repeated orders I have received from the 
Lords of the Treasury to enter upon it, I was perhaps too 
sanguine in my first attempts. I wish notwithstanding to 
proceed with the utmost Candour and Dehberation and beg 
leave to assure those Gentlemen who first harboured the idea, 
that nothing can be more repugnant to my own feelings than to 
think of wounding theirs by Insinuations, Inuendoes, or by any 
means whatever; I pretend not to infalibility more than them- 
selves and therefore hope that mistakes on either side will be 
kindly pointed out and candidly rectified. 

The Calculations in the enclosed Estimate are made on the 
largest scale of Expence, and as they also depend on the Judg- 
ment of Mechanics, and Men of probity and experience, I 
flatter myself they are grounded on the most deliberate and 
solid principles; as such I submit them to the consideration of 
the Board, presuming they contain every thing essential re- 
specting the Horse, & Waggon Departments, at present existing 
with this Army. 

I have the honor to be, 

Sir &c &c 

Dun'' Drummond. 

His Excellency 
Lieut Genl Robertson 



210 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Estimate of the Probable Expences attending the Estab 
Persons of every denomination, and the annual repairs neces 
Horses and Waggons being the same as these at present em 

Article 1st 

1 Principal Conductor at 

6 Conductors 

60 Sub Conductors 

620 Drivers 



Article 2d for 



1 Waggon Master 

2 Ass* Waggon Masters . . 

3 Overseers 

3 Ass* Overseers 

3 Storekeepers 

3 Ass* Storekeepers 

3 Clerks 

1 Paymaster 

1 Assistant 

30 Labourers 

1 Company consisting of 
50 Black Labourers 



Article 3d for 



Comprehending Farriers, Blacksmiths, Carpenters, Sawyers, 
Wheelwrights, Collarmakers and other Artificers to accompany 
occassionally the different Brigades of Waggons, making new 
Harness and all necessary repairs, 2 Compan^ of 50 Men each 
making 100 viz*; — 

60 at 

40 at 

1 Master Carpenter 

1 Master Wheelwright 

1 Master Blacksmith 

Carried forward 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 211 

lishment of a Train of Horses and Waggons, with the requisite 
sary to keep it up, including Casualties, the proportion of 
ployed in the Quarter Master General's Department. 

New York Curr^ 
for Horses. per Annum 

24/ per diem £438 

16/ 1752 

8/ 8760 

3/ 33945 44895 .. .. 



the Waggons. 




20/ per diem 


£365 


16/ 


584 


16/ 


876 


12/ 


657 


16/ 


876 


12/ 


657 


8/ 


438 


24/ 


438 


16/ 


292 


4/ 


2190 


1/6 


1369 



9472 



Horses & Waggons 



12/ per diem £13140 

8/ per diem 5840 

lat 20/ per diem 1095 20075 

£74442 



212 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

The foregoing three Articles contain the full establishment of 
the necessary persons of every Denomination to manage and 
keep up this Department, and each may, I presume, be obtained 
and engaged for the respective Salaries there specified. 

The present Artificers, Conductors, Waggon Masters, Clerks, 
&c employed in the Qu*" Master General's Department apparent- 
ly to aid the proprietors of the Horses and Waggons (but which 
the Gentlemen themselves of the Department can best explain) 
would be included in the Articles, if necessary, otherwise would 
most of them be discharged — from whence an Annual saving of 
upwards of £20000 would arise. 

Article 4th 

Horses to replace such as may die annually or become unfit 
for service including all casualties. 500 at £32 each is 

This is an allowance of one fourth of the whole which must 
be admitted as very ample. The common rate of Mortality in 
this Country is in a much less proportion, and the Casualties 
can scarce make up the difference, especially when the Army 
does not take the Field, and in an Active Campaign it may be 
supposed that the Casualties would be fully counterballanced 
by adding all the Captured Horses and Waggons to the Estab- 
lishment — N. B. — the Average price of Horses is fixed at £32 
New York Currency, because one Department of this Army has 
been supplied with able Horses at that rate, but many have 
been purchased in that and other Departments for less. On 
these united considerations I rest the foundation of this Article. 
Carried forward 

Brought forward 

Article 5th 

For Materials to construct annually 60 Large and 100 Small 
Waggons and to answer for Casualties 

The workmen being already paid in Article 3d this Calcu- 
lation allows %ds of the prime Cost for each Waggon estimating 
the Large at £40 and the small at £20 Sterlg. 

Article 6th 
200 Setts of New Harness to replace such as may be annu- 
ally rendered unserviceable and for Casualties 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 213 

New York Currency 
Brought forward . . . £74442 . . . . 



£16000 



£90442 . . . . 

New York Currency 

£90442 . . . . 



5000 



3000 



214 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

This Article is estimated at the Medium price a Contractor 
would charge or £15 per Sett, Captures may also tend to lessen 
this Article. 

Article 7th 

Iron for Horse Shoes Annually 

This Article allows 100 pounds of Iron for each Horse per 
annum at £3 10 per Ct Weight, which is a large allowance 
considering the work is paid for in Article 3d. 

Article 8th 

Tar and Slush for greasing the Waggons every second day 
at £4 each 

Carried forward 

Brought forward 

Article 9th 

For the necessary repairs in every respect of the Waggons 
including Turpentine, Paint, Oil, Nails, Iron Work, Rope, 
Harness, Leather, Sheep Skins, Bridle Bitts, Osnaburgs, Russia 
Duck, Twine, Thread, Hair, Chains, Wax, Rosin, Chalk, 
Buckles, Tools, Lumber and Plank 

This is about 3^ of their prime cost and with the allow- 
ance of 160 New Waggons & 200 Setts of Harness by Articles 
5 and 6 will be found sufficient, especially when all the Iron Work 
of Waggons become unfit for Service and old Horse Shoes &c 
are applied to this Service 

Total 



By this Estimate it appears that the Horse and Waggon 
Department might possibly be kept up for the sum of £116000 
Department for a similar Period by the Average of three 
amounting to £193566 New York Currency the difference being 
Government from adopting the plan of the foregoing estimate. 

If the saving pointed out in the observation upon Article 
Currency. Besides the Expence of shoeing all the Horses, 
for in the foregoing Estimate. 
New York 
20th Nov 1781. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 215 

New York Curr" 
per Annum 



6000 



25000 



£106942 . . . . 

New York Currency 
£106942 . . . . 



9058 



£116000 



Department of this Army employed by the Qu^ M*^- General's 
New York Currency per annum. The Actual Charge of this 
Quarter's Accounts laid before me as Commissary of Accounts 
£77566 is an annual saving that would probably result to 

3d is admitted the whole will amount to £97566 New York 
which is at present a charge upon Government and is provided 

Dun" Drummond 

Commy of Accounts. 



216 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Observations in support of the Plan presented to the Board 
of General Officers. 

In order that the Board may Judge more clearly of the pro- 
priety upon which I have founded my principles that it will be 
attended with a considerable saving to Government were it to 
take into its own management the Vessels, Horses and Waggons, 
&c|of the different Departments, it may perhaps be necessary 
for the purpose of obtaining a more comprehensive view of this 
Business, that the nature and conditions of the several contracts 
by which the Departments furnish the requisite Articles for the 
Publick Service be inquired into; to examine into the principles 
upon which they are grounded, and whether they appear to be 
governed by such as are usually made upon a fair and equitable 
bargain between Government and the Contractors. I am 
induced to believe that upon a Comparative View of the Ex- 
pences attending these Contracts with what I propose, it will 
be found that Government, by taking all the Articles belonging 
to the various Establishments under the immediate direction 
of its own controul, would probably cause a great diminution of 
Expences. 

Majors Bruen and Robertson having represented to the 
Board the important and essential services rendered the Publick 
from the exertions of the several Officers belonging to the 
Quarter Master General's Department, in aiding and assisting 
upon all occasions the different Departments of the Army with 
Waggons &c. I must add my evidence to the corroborating 
testimonies exhibited by the principals of them in support of 
the assertions made by Majors Bruen and Robertson. 

I admit that the Train of Horses and Waggons have been at 
all tifnes extremely useful in forwarding the Publick Works, 
and that the several Departments have been supplied when the 
exigencies of the service required their aid, in the fullest and 
most efficacious manner; in particular at the time alluded to by 
those Gentlemen in the Winter of 1779 and 80 when the whole 
Army was benefited by, and felt the good effects of their Zeal 
and activity in furnishing wood for the Garrison of New York 
and its depending Posts at a period when no regular nor suffi- 
cient supply of Fuel could be obtained from the Department 
which should have provided against such a Casualty. I 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 217 

acknowledge that the Gentlemen who bear so conspicuous a 
share in the execution of the important duties of this Depart- 
ment have contributed by their earnest and well meant en- 
deavours to bring it to the perfection in which we view it; nor 
can I doubt from the resputable Characters which they are 
universally allowed to possess but that the primary object 
pursued by them has ever been the Publick Good connected 
with their own particular Zeal for the King's Service. 

The distinguished Mark of His Majesty's approbation with 
which one of these Officers has been honored, from his assiduity 
and faithful discharge of the Duties in this station, was not more 
grateful to the Army in general than it was pleasing to me 
personally ; from a Conviction that no favor of a similar nature 
has been conferred upon any Officer serving in America with 
more propriety and Justice since the Commencement of the 
War. 

When I contend that the Expenditures of Monies in this 
Department upon a Comparative View with the services per- 
formed, seem to have encr eased to an excessive amount, I must 
attribute the excess to have arisen, in a great measure from the 
defective nature of the Establishment now subsisting from the 
erroneous principles upon which the present system is founded, 
and not to any want of zeal, abilities or good intentions in the 
present executive officers, or in the General Officer who is placed 
at the head of it, to rectify any defects. 

It must be considered as Majors Bruen and Robertson 
alledge that the mode now followed is but a Continuation of 
one uniform system adopted in an early stage of the War. 
Whether this system was founded on the Basis of frugality, 
and that such oeconomical effects have proceeded from it as 
have been asserted, or that an accumlation of charges and 
expences have resulted from the causes I have assigned in the 
inherent defects of such an arrangement, would be undoubtedly 
ascertained in the event of a tryal on the plan I propose. 

I have endeavoured by pointing out a way which I think the 
most eligible one for Government to pursue to correct this 
imperfect establishment to put it upon the best foundation to 
answer every purpose, and at the same time to evince that a 
retrenchment of Expences would most probably be the happy 



218 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

consequence, should some plan of this kind I have presented 
be determined on. 

The principals of other Departments who in their letters to 
Major Bruen of September last entertain so rediculous an idea 
respecting the hiring of Country Waggons, formed their opinions, 
I presume upon a supposition that Government might adopt 
such temporary and precarious expedients, and not enter upon a 
more enlarged and certain system. My sentiments entirely 
coincide with their observations on such a contingency, I 
conceive, however, that Government might avail itself par- 
tially and in some instances of temporary expedients, altho' a 
system founded upon them, and carried into execution upon all 
occasions would seem to be an absurd measure, I should repro- 
bate the idea equally with the Gentleman who started it; but 
to exclude all possibility of advantages which might be derived 
from the local situation of New York, Long & Staten Islands 
with the assistance to be had from the inhabitants thereof, in 
my humble conception it would only indicate a total want of 
resources in the persons who should reject the probable means 
of drawing from the Country within the British Lines any aid 
conducive to the purposes of Government. If this should be 
acknowledged, it must infallibly demonstrate, what I trust is 
not the case, that we are destitute of means to assist the publick 
Works, when the exigencies of the Service require to be aided 
from the Country. I request to particularize an occasion. 
I hope to be justified in my assertion when I presume to say 
that his Excellency the Governor's authority would be fully 
competent to enforce a prompt execution of the measure. I 
mean in respect to the Pontoon Train which in the space of one 
Year has been moved from New York to Kingsbridge, thirty 
eight Waggons, One hundred and forty eight Horses and thirty- 
eight Drivers appear to be constantly employed in this service 
for which Government pay annually £14000 New York Cur- 
rency the Waggons being always attached to the Pontoon 
Train and ready to move with it; there would be no unsur- 
mountable difficulty, I imagine in procuring for a limited time 
150 Horses from the Country to transport the Pontoons. No 
operations or movements in the winter will probably take place 
to require the constant use of the Pontoon Train. A Diminu- 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 219 

tion of Expence might possibly be judged necessary in that 
Article during such period, in which apparently there would not 
arise much necessity for their being employed. I however 
prefer the more certain mode of retaining in the hands of 
Government Horses for this Service and this motive has in- 
duced me to allot, in my Calculations, a proportion for that 
purpose. 

I have been induced to enter into this Discussion presuming 
upon the indulgence of the Board in my favor, the motives 
which have actuated me in my inquiries are solely a considera- 
tion for the Publick good, and in consequence of the repeated 
injunctions, as I before observed, which I have received from 
the honorable persons who appointed me to the office I now 
have the honor to fill; the tenor of my Commission and their 
admonitary letters have operated upon my mind in so forcible 
a manner that I should hold myself to be inexcusable were I not 
to endeavor at fulfilling their wishes and intentions and when I 
add that the wishes of the Nation at large, accompany those of 
the respectable persons mentioned, it must prove a fresh in- 
centive to my endeavours of elucidating this subject. I submit 
the whole to the information and superior Judgment of the 
Board to determine upon the Merit of my propositions, and 
ultimately to decide whether in their estimation they appear to 
be founded upon solid principles, or likely to produce the conse- 
quences I have maintained would probably result from them by 
a reduction of the expences of this Department. 

If the proposition I have made are held as erroneous and 
defective, I must claim the indulgence of the Board in my 
extenuation, I have been guided by no other motive than a most 
earnest anxiety to discharge the duties of my office, and to 
pursue every proper means of attempting to diminish the very 
heavy expences attending the Departments of this Army. 

When I reflect that the Commissioners of the Publick 
Accounts at home are upon the point of examining into the 
extraordinaries of the American War, and the probability there 
is of their calling upon the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's 
Treasury for information upon so intricate a subject, I own it 
stimulates my endeavours to give them all the lights and 
explanation I am capable of affording, in the Report I must 



220 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

necessarily transmit to them upon this occasion agreeable to 
the spirit and intent of my Commission and the subsequent 
Orders I have received from the Treasury which specify in so 
urgent a manner. 

That the great encrease of the Expenditures of Publick 
Money calls for every exertion, and that the Lords (of the 
Treasury) trust you will with the assistance and under the 
Orders of the Commander in Chief use every means in your 
power to curtail all improper charges, to prevent unnecessary 
expences, and to see that the respective services are carried on 
with all due and proper Oeconomy. 

I take the Uberty of observing that a similar mode of in- 
vestigation with that I have adopted in relation to the Horses 
and Waggons will apply to the various heads of publick Expend- 
itures in the several Branches of the other Departments. 

And if it should be judged requisite and determined upon, I 
can subjoin a state of Vessels, armed and unarmed now em- 
ployed in the different Departments, to show the great proba- 
bility of decreasing the charges in this important Article of 
expence by pursuing my plan ; but this consideration I wave for 
the present, as I trust that the Board will be fully competent 
from what I have already presented, to determine upon the 
propriety or impropriety of what I have suggested. 

DuN° Drummond 

Comm^ of Accounts. 
New York 
20th Nov 1781. 

Copy of a Letter from Major General Dalrymple to His 
Excellency Lieut General Robertson, President of the Board 
of General Officers, &c Accompanying an aggregate of Letters 
and papers 34 Numbers. 

New York 30th November 1781. 
Sir:— 

I beg leave to return your Excellency and the Gentlemen of 
the Board my sincere thanks for the Communication of the 
Estimate & observations laid before you by Major Drummond 
and to remark that the Services performed by the Qu- M^ 
General's Department are so extensive and various that it 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 221 

requires long experience and minute observation to form an 
adequate idea of its importance, expence and extent, and this 
in some measure may account for the various errors attending 
the calculations exhibited to the Board by Major Drummond 
in his comparative Views, his sketch of the Quarter Master 
Gen'= Department and his last Estimate which differ so essen- 
tially from one another. 

In answer to the first part of the observations made by 
Major Drummond in support of the last project delivered to 
your Excellency and the Board over which you preside I beg 
leave to refer to No 3. Lord Cathcart's letter to His Excel- 
lency the Commander in Chief, and to Major Bruen and 
Robertson's Letters No 6 and 7. 

I am extremely obliged to Major Drummond for the high 
sense he entertains of the zeal and abilities of the Gentlemen 
under me that have carried on the business of the Department, 
it is a fresh proof of his Judgment and Candour, as well as his 
acknowledgement of the Services performed by the Department 
in the carrying on the demands of the Army at large and par- 
ticularly for their exertions in Winter 79-80 when the early and 
unusual vigour of the season added to His disappointment of 
supplies from the Inhabitants had prevented the Barrack 
Master General from making the usual provision of Fuel for 
the Troops, and I am sure the Department will meet with new 
Praise and approbation when I can inform him that at this 
moment it almost singly supports the whole weight of the 
different Departments who are in a great measure disappointed 
of the aid expected from the Inhabitants of these Districts 
whose incapacity or unwillingness to execute the demands made 
upon them have uniformly been the same. 

Major Drummond in his letter to your Excellency of the 
20th instant having acknowledged his being too sanguine in 
his first attempts ought not now so positively to assert that the 
Expenditures of Monies in my Department seem excessive or 
encreasing beyond the services performed which he sets forth 
in his observations. 

My observations and experience and the long experience of 
the Officers under me, who have conducted this Department so 
ably and so much to the satisfaction of the Commander in 



222 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Chief under whom they have served and for which both are 
honored with singular marks of favor joined to the facts arising 
from the papers now and formerly laid before the Board, will 
I trust prove Major Drummond's project to be visionary and 
if carried into execution, more defective and equally expensive 
to the present Establishment nor do I humbly conceive that 
any arrangement could have been made more Oeconomical or 
better calculated in every respect for carrying on the public 
Service. 

Endeavours at alterations of the Magnitude proposed by 
Major Drummond's project are seldom successful even when 
resulting from deep enquiries and long experience, nor can it be 
esteemed prudent on slight and trivial grounds to alter our 
establishment that has supported its credit on the most trying 
occasions past as well as present of which His Excellency the 
Commander in Chief as well as every Member of this Board, I 
hope have had the fullest conviction. 

As I do not perfectly understand the argumentative part 
of Major Drummond's observations respecting the aid to be 
drawn from the Country in the adjacent Districts of Long 
and Staten Islands, I shall content myself with observing that 
at present they scarce afford any, as a proof of which I beg 
leave to refer to the Heads of the other Departments of the 
Army. 

The high respect I entertain of the authority that gave 
birth to the Pontoon Train compels me to conceive the estab- 
lishment highly necessary, and had Major Drummond de- 
scended to any tolerable degree of minuteness in his enquiries, 
he would have found that the Horses and Drivers allotted to 
that service were not an idle burthen on the publick, but like 
every other branch of the Department employed in useful and 
important Services. Besides the usual duties in the publick 
Lines I shall only particularize a few Instances to the Board, that 
of drawing in Forage, laying in Lumber for the Ship Yard and 
Fuel for the Troops when in Camp, by which last article firing 
is provided at the small rate of twenty five ShilUngs Currency 
per Cord at an average, the Market price being from four to 
six pounds Currency and Lumber at twelve pounds Currency 
per thousand the Market price being Forty to Sixty pounds and 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 223 

often double those prices. And by the transporting of Forage 
almost the original Cost is saved to Government. 

I am now to claim that the Candour and patience of the 
Board may be extended to me. The subject is new and prob- 
ably requires more experience and Capacity than I profess to 
do it Justice. I allow that motives of publick Zeal and the 
attention due to the honorable Persons so respectable as those 
mentioned by Major Drummond are sufficient to vindicate the 
enquiries that have drawn so much trouble on your Board & 
the various Departments and I shall be happy to show the 
respect I entertain of the Board where you preside by em- 
bracing every occasion of following their ideas or suggestions 
when applicable to any branch of my Department. 

I now close my observations on the Business and shall only 
beg leave to refer the Board to all the former papers that have 
been laid before them, a Copy of which with an aggregate I 
have now the honor to deliver, as well as some additional 
papers, trusting that they will accompany your final Report to 
His Excellency the Commander in Chief. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 

W. Dalrymple, Q. M. G'. 



No 1 of the 
Aggregate 

Memorandums relative to the Qu- M- General's Depart- 
ment 30th June 1779 Sir Wm Erskine left the Quart Master 
General's Department and was succeeded by Lord Cathcart. 
His Lordship immediately after being appointed Personally 
mustered and reviewed all the Horses and Waggons appointed 
to the different Corps of the Army, the Provision Train and 
Pontoon Train &c which His Lordship reported in the following 
words : — 

"When I joined the Department I found the Regiments, 
Staff, Hessian Artillery, Pontoon Train, &c complete, I like- 
wise found a Train equal to the transporting Twenty one days 
provisions for Ten thousand Men." 

His Lordship likewise (in consequence of some particular 
Querries from His Excellency the Commander in Chief) laid 



224 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

before His Excellency in Writing a particular State of the 
footing the Department stood upon from its Commencement 
under Sir William Howe to that time. 

When His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton went with the 
Army to Charlestown, the Provision Train was left at New 
York and each of the Corps going upon the Expedition embarked 
their Waggons to take with them. 

During the Winter and Spring 1780 the Provision Train were 
employed in drawing Fuel for the Town and Garrison of New 
York and had it not been for the great exertions of Major 
Savage under whom they were at that time employed both the 
Troops & Inhabitants must have suffered great distress. 

When General Robertson arrived at New York in Spring 
1780 he spoke with Major Bruen concerning the establishment 
of the Provision Train then kept up, and proposed the reducing 
the number of it. Upon which Major Bruen wrote immediately 
to the Quarter Master General at Charlestown requesting him 
to know the Command"" in Chief's intentions upon that subject. 
To which he received an answer from Brigadier General Dal- 
rymple who was then Quarter Master General that he Major 
Bruen was to keep the Train upon the same footing it then was, 
according to the regulations estabUshed, which Major Bruen 
conceived to be those at the time Lord Cathcart was appointed, 
when the general Muster and Report was made by him to the 
Commander in Chief. 

When Brigadier General Dalrymple left New York in 
September 1780 on his way to Britain he charged Major Bruen 
and Robertson with the care of the Department, instructing 
them to keep everything complete and upon the best footing 
for immediate service, and they in consequence have since 
continued to Act for Brigadier General Dalrymple in his 
absence, keeping the Department upon the same establishment 
it was left on when he went away. 

It has been with the greatest assiduity and trouble that 
during the Course of four Years the Department has been 
brought to the perfection it now stands in, with respect to 
serviceable and able Horses and Waggons which have been 
purchased at very high prices. If a diminution should at 
present be thought necessary & the Horses discharged, if on a 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 225 

future day an augmentation should again be wanted, it will be 
found a very difficult if not altogether an impossible task to 
complete them. 

The Horses and Waggons belonging to the Quarter Master 
General's Department have been constantly employed in the 
Publick Services of the Army, by the several Departments of 
the Engineers, Commissary General, and Barrack Master 
General, some of which Services have been for a considerable 
length of time so severe particularly in 1779 at King's Bridge 
that a double and even a triple relay of Horses were found 
necessary to keep the waggons in daily employment, bawling 
the Materials from Morrissinia up the very rugged and steep 
hills where the publick works are constructed. They have been 
likewise employed upon the same services upon Long and 
Staten Islands, Hawling Materials, &c for all the Publick Works 
& Posts; likewise in collecting Forage at great distances upon 
Long Island, &c Drawing Fuel for the Troops in Camp and Can- 
tonments, and for the supply of the Hospitals for the Navy and 
Army. Also in hawling Materials for the Ship Yard for Build- 
ing and repairing of GaUies, Gun Boats, Batteaux, Armed 
Briggs, Schooners, & Sloops, fitting up Births in Transports, 
and Horse Vessels, by which a very considerable saving has been 
made to Government. 

For all which Services the several Departments must have 
employed other Horses and Waggons at an equal if not greater 
expence to Government. Or should another mode of hiring 
Waggons from the Country be adopted besides the great in- 
convenience that must arise to the Farmer in particular, and to 
the Country in general, in case of a sudden movement of the 
Army in the sowing or reaping season; an immediate and 
unavoidable discovery of every intended movement must be 
the consequence of the Orders being issued for collecting the 
Waggons together; besides running the risk of not being able 
to get a sufficient number on a short notice, which upon former 
trials has been experienced. 

In calculating the Number of Horses and Waggons necessary 
for carrying provisions for a stated time to an Army of a certain 
Number of fighting Men, A great extra allowance must always 
be made for the number of followers of the Army such as Guides, 



226 



PEOCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Artificers, Drivers, Servants, &c and likewise empty Waggons 
to be ready to take up the tired, sick and wounded. 

The Naval part of the Department were by Sir WilHam 
Howe's order put under the direction of an Agent, who has the 
sole management of them, and whose Certificate only entitles the 
Owners to the payment of their hire. 

The armed Craft lately taken into the Service are likewise 
under the direction of an Agent. 



No 2 of the 
Aggregate 

A State of the Number of Drivers, Horses and Waggons 
employed in the Quarter Master General's Department in the 
following Years. 



Distribution 


Drivers 


Horses 


Waggons 


In 1777 


823 


2092 


763 


1778 


874 


2086 


874 


1779 


740 


2164 


699 


1780 


731 


2146 


690 


1781 


623 


1979 


620 



N. B. — A Number of Horses and Waggons were taken from 
the Rebel Country in the Years of 1777 and 1778 which if 
brought into Ace* would make one fourth more than what is 
charged for in the subsequent Years. 

In 1779 the Pontoon Train was ordered to be completed 
which with the arrival of the 76th, 80th, 82d and 84th Regiments 
from Europe, the Troops from Rhode Island, and the Flank 
Companies from Halifax as also the encrease of the Provincial 
Corps, caused an additional number of Horses to be employed 
that year. 



No 3 of the 
Aggregate 

New York 17th December 1779 
Sir:— 

Having received your Excellency's Command to inform you 
in writing. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 227 

1st Upon what footing the Waggons employed in the 
Quarter Master General's Department stood at the first landing 
on Long & Staten Islands in 1776. 

2dly What alterations have since been made upon that 
arrangement and by whom, and 

3dly Upon what footing and by whom Waggons are now 
furnished for the use of the Quarter Master General's Depart- 
ment? 

I am to have the Honor of stating to your Excellency with 
regard to the first question. 

That during the whole of 1776 Lieut Colonel Shirreff acted 
in most respects as if head of the Quarter Master General's 
Department, Sir William Erskine who was appointed Qu'. 
M^ General in the latter end of September 1776 not interfering 
in any other branch of office than what occurred in the Field 
during that period. 

That all the Warrants granted for the Expenditures in the 
Department in 1776 were granted to Lieut Col Shirreff. 

That the Waggons and Horses were furnished by Lieut 
Colonel Shirreff, And 

That the mode he used in this Business was that of hiring 
the Waggons required from different contractors, and paying 
them by the day, for which he has I presume, the proper Vouch- 
ers & Authentic Receipts with him in England. 

The Answer therefore to your Excellency's first Question is 
that in the year 76 the Waggons used in the Quarter Master 
General's Department with the grand Army were hired by 
Lieut Colonel Shireff. 

2dly What alterations have since been made upon that 
arrangement and by whom? 

The Land Carriage of the Army was performed in the be- 
ginning of 77 partly by a Train of Waggons and Horses brought 
over from England and under the inspection of Mr Francis 
Rush Clarke and (that Train never having been adequate to 
the exigencies of the Army, or calculated for the Service of this 
Country) partly by Waggons and Horses hired by Sir Wm 
Erskine who had entered into all the functions of his office at 
the Commencement of that Year. 



228 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

In March 77 when it was in Contemplation to make a for- 
ward move Sir Wm Erskine represented the State of the Train 
as inadequate. 

Sir Wilham Howe the Commander In Chief having con- 
sidered this point, ordered Sir Wm Erskine upon no account to 
purchase Horses or Waggons, as that would draw on expences 
that never could be defined, but told him that he depended upon 
the Quart Master General to hire a sufficient Number of Wag- 
gons and Horses to form a Train equal to the probable exigen- 
cies of the Army, that having constantly been the practice in 
this Country. 

The remains of the English Train which by Losses & foraging 
parties, accident and bad management, was reduced to a very 
small number of worn down Horses, were upon that account 
put totally under the care of Sir Wm Erskine, and the Waggons 
set aside as unserviceable. 

These Horses were put out to nurse on Long and Staten 
Islands and there are not above fifteen of them now remaining. 

From that day the Quarter Master General and the Quarter 
Master General only, has been considered as responsible to the 
Commander in Chief for the Land Carriage required for the 
Army. 

In May 77 it was judged expedient that a Number of 
Waggons and Horses should go with the then ensuing Expedi- 
tion in order that the Army might be able to move off its 
ground immediately upon its Debarkation. 

The election was proposed to those Farmers of Long and 
Staten Islands from whom Waggons and Horses had been hired, 
either to embark them as their own property, or to sell them at 
a fair Valuation, done in presence of two Justices of the Peace, 
to such Persons as would run the risk. 

Some few chose the former offer and Embarked their 
Horses; the greater part declined it, and sold their Horses which 
were paid for, and the officer who paid them can produce 
authentic & legal Certificates signed and sealed of the regularity 
of this transaction, and can produce a Receipt for every Horse 
and Waggon purchased at that time specifying the Value paid 
for each and signed by the Vender or his Attorney. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 229 

Thus in answer to your Excellency's second question, I have 
shown that the only change that happened in the arrangement 
of the Train while Sir WilUam Erskine was Quarts Master 
General was that a Train sent from England were worn out and 
that Sir Wm Erskine was ordered to hire Waggons & Horses to 
form a Train for the Service of the Army, as was always the 
Custom in this Country. 

3dly Upon what footing are the Waggons now furnished 
for the use of the Quarter Master General's Department. 

I, as doing the duty of Quarter Master General to the Army 
under your Excellency's Orders, am at present answerable, and 
alone accountable to the Commander in Chief of the Army, for 
having an effective Train ready and fit for service, equal to the 
Transportation of Provisions for any number of Men and days 
the Commander in Chief chuses to fix, or for the performing any 
other Military service, as forming Magazines, Constructing 
Fortifications &c &c for supplying the General Officers, the Staff 
Regiments, Pontoon Train, Hessian Artillery and Hospitals with 
their proper Number of Waggons, and for having a number of 
Horses ready to mount Guides and Expresses. 

And as a Train of this Nature & Extent cannot be kept up at 
the cheap rate at which they are hired without very great 
exertion, I am to look up to the Commander in Chief for his 
Countenance and support when I am ordered to add to the 
Train, and am taught to expect previous Notice before I am to 
reduce it. 

The regulated hire which I pay is as follows: — 

Sterling 
For one small waggon with one Driver and two 

Horses per day £0 6 9 

For one Large Waggon with one Driver and four 

Horses per day 11 9 

For a single Horse per day 1 8 

When I joined the Department, I found the Regiments, 
Staff, Hessian Artillery, Pontoon Train, &c compleat, I likewise 
found a Train equal to the Transporting twenty one days pro- 
visions for ten thousand Men. So great a Number of Regi- 
mental Waggons & Horses have been worn down by most of the 



230 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

British Regiments this Autumn, that I have been forced to 
draft the lightest Horses from the Train to supply some of the 
Corps arrived from Rhode Island and have ordered strong 
Horses to be procured in their room; and to my certain knowl- 
edge the Persons from whom the Horses are had sent no less a 
sum than two thousand Guineas to Huntington in November 
last, to pay ready money for the best Horses on Long Island, to 
compleat the train to what I found it. 

A. — The good order in which the Foreign Corps keep their 
Waggons & Horses is a proof that the frequent deficiencies that 
happen in the British Corps are owing to want of care. 

I mention this Fact to show that Expence is not spared by 
the Contractors employed. 

Thus, Sir, I have had the honor of answering your Excel- 
lency's three Questions. 

I must now add that with regard to what passed before I 
joined the Army, I have collected the best information I could 
with regard to what passed from March 77 I speak with cer- 
tainty and since I have had the honor of serving in this Depart- 
ment I speak from my own knowledge. 

I have the Honor to be 
Sir &c &c 

Cathcart 

His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, K. B. 
General & Commander in Chief, &c &c &c 



No 4 of the 
Aggregate 

Head Quarters May 2d, 1780 
Sir:— 

I have the honor to inform you that it is the pleasure of His 
Excellency the Commander in Chief that every Article of the 
Quarter Master General's Department with you be kept in 
perfect Order for immediate and Active Service according to the 
regulations he has been pleased to Establish and which you 
showed me the detail of. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 231 

You are to conceive this to be directed to Services, sudden, 
important, and not provincial, as it is impossible to say where 
the scene of operation may fall; no communication on that head 
can be looked for. 

Stand prepared, and consider this as the General's Orders 
and expectations. 

I have the honor to be, &c 

W Dalrymple. 

P. S. — Communicate the Contents to General Robertson 
if you judge it proper. 

Major Bruen. 



No 5 of the 
Aggregate 

New York 14th August 1780. 
Gentlemen : — 

Having received Orders from His Excellency the Com- 
mander in Chief to depart for Europe, where I may probably 
remain some considerable time in executing his Commands, I 
think it proper to inform you that it is His Excellency's intention 
that all the Horses, Waggons, Small Craft, Armed Vessels, &c 
&c now employed in the Quarts M^ General's Department are to 
remain on the same footing they now are during my absence 
without particular instructions from His Excellency to the 
Contrary; and in answer to the several applications that have 
been made to me by the Proprietors of the Train of the Army 
respecting a timely notice being allowed them before their 
property was discharged from the service. His Excellency thinks 
proper to inform them that three Months Notice will be given 
to them previous to such determination. 

You are likewise to proceed in getting the six armed Vessels 
and the two express Vessels lately ordered to be taken into the 
Service of the Department fitted out as expeditiously as possible. 
And it is also His Excellency Sir Henry CHnton's Orders that 
when Money is wanted to defray the expences of the Depart- 
ment, you are to make a requisition for temporary Warrants 
from His Excellency the Commander in Chief for such sums as 



232 PROCEEDINGS OP A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

may be necessary which you are to account for to me in order 
that I may include the same in my accounts to be passed by the 
Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury. 
I am, 

Gentleman, &c &c 

W. Dalrymple, Q. M. G. 

To Major Henry Bruen 
& Capt Arch^ Robertson, 
Dep. Q' M' Generals 
or any or either of them. 



No 6 of the 
Aggregate 



Letter from Major's Bruen & Robertson to His Excellency 
Lt Genl Robertson, 16th August 178L 

See page 70 



No 7 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Major Bruen & Robertson to His Excellency 
Lt Genl Robertson 17th August 1781. 

See page 74 



No 8 of the 
Aggregate 

New York 23d August 1781. 
Sir:— 

We beg you will be so good as to inform us, whether a 
number of Horses and Waggons belonging to the Quarter 
Master General's Department have not been constantly em- 
ployed in your Department since your appointment as Barrack 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 233 

Master General; and whether or not it is your opinion that if 
you had depended upon the Inhabitants for these supplies the 
business of your Department could have been carried on. 

We likewise beg that you will take the trouble to enquire of 

the Gentlemen employed in Your Department before your 

appointment respecting these particulars, especially during the 

time of the great scarcity of Fuel in the Winter 1779 and 1780. 

We are with great respect, 

Sir, &c &c 

Henry Bruen 
Arch'' Robertson 

Lt Colonel Crosbie 
Barrack M^ General. 



No 9 of the 
Aggregate 



New York 23d August 1781 



Sir:— 

We beg you will take the trouble to inform us whether the 
Engineers Department under your direction has not always 
been amply supplied with Waggons & Horses when required 
from the Quarter Master General's Department for collecting 
and Transporting Materials used in the constructing the works 
that have been carried on at the different Posts under your 
direction and whether or not they have been constantly em- 
ployed. 

We likewise beg that you will be pleased to communicate 
your thoughts, respecting the extensive and labourious services 
performed by them, & whether it is your opinion if you had 
depended upon the Inhabitants of the Country for the supply of 
these articles, that the business of your Department could have 
been carried on. 

We are with great respect Sir 
&c &c 

Henry Bruen 
Arch" Robertson 

To Captain Mercer 

Command^ Engineer. 



234 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 10 of the 
Aggregate 

New York 23d August 1781 
Sir:— 

We beg you will be so obliging as to inform us whether a 
Number of Horses and Waggons belonging to the Quarter 
Master General's Department have not been constantly em- 
ployed in your Department, in transporting Provisions to the 
Different Posts and Magazines and in collecting Forage. 

And that you will also be pleased to inform us whether or 
not it is your opinion that if you had depended upon the Country 
in any one year since May 1777 these supplies could have been 
procurred independent of the assistance of such a Train as that 
Established under the Q^ M- General. 

We have the honor to be with great respect 
Sir &c &c 

Henry Bruen 
Arch° Robertson 
Daniel Wier, Esq. 
Commissary General 



No 11 of the 

Aggregate 

Letter from Major Bruen to His Excellency Lieut GenI 
Robertson August 24th, 1781 

See page 96 



No 12 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Major Bruen to His Excellency Lieut General 
Robertson 1st September 1781. 

See page 168 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 235 

No 13 of the 
Aggregate 

General abstract of a Muster taken of the Quarter Master 
General's Department in the District of New York the 26th 
and 27th August 1781. 

See page 168 



No 14 of the 
Aggregate 

Return of Drivers, Horses & Waggons with the different 
Corps up the Chesapeake 23d September 1781 

See page 170 



No 15 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Majors Bruen & Robertson to His Excellency 
Lieut General Robertson 14 September 1781. 

See page 197 



No 16 of the 
Aggregate 

Comparative View to purchase or to hire Vessels, Horses and 
Waggons employed in the different Departments from 1st 
January to 31st March 1781. 

See page 38 



236 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 17 of the 
Aggregate 

Sketch of the Quarter Master General's Department at New 
York for 3 Months from 1st January to 31st March 1781. 

See page 14 



No 18 of the 
Aggregate 

Comparative View to Purchase or hire Horses, Waggons, 
Carts &c in the Quart Master General's Department. 

See page 199 



No 19 of the 
Aggregate 

Comparative View to purchase or hire Vessels in the Quarter 
Master General's Department 

See page 201 



No 20 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Major De Lancey Adjut General to Major 
Bruen 3d September 1781. 

See page 203 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 237 

No 21 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Major Bruen to Major De Lancey Adjutant 
General September 3d 1781. 

See page 203 



No 22 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Lt Colonel Crosbie Barrack Master General to 
Majors Bruen & Robertson September 3d 1781 

See page 204 



No 23 of the 
Aggregate 

Lette? from Captain Mercer Commandg Engineer to Major 
Bruen & Robertson September 7th, 1781. 

See page 205 



No 24 of the 
Aggregate 

Letter from Col Baron de Cockenhausen Quarter Master 
General Hessian Troops to Major Bruen 14th May 1781. 

See page 206 



238 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No. 25 OF THE Aggregate 

Portage Bill and charges of one of the largest Horse Vessels 
for three Months for example the Briggantine Peggy Viz*: — 

Master Six Guin«. per Month at 21/93^ each 

Doll. 4/8 £19 12 

Mate 20 Dollars per Month 14 

6 Seamen at 15 Dollars each 63 

3 Barrels Beef at £7 Curr^^ 
per Barrel £21 

234 Barr' Pork 8-10 21 15 

7CtWtofBread 3-4 22 8 

3 Bush'. Pease 0-12 1 16 

Rum, Fresh Meat, Cabbin 
Stores &c 20 



Currency £86 19 Sterl. 50 8 7 

The above are certain Expences every Quarter and the 
following are not extraordinary supposing the Vessel to meet 
with no uncommon Disaster such as losing Anchors, Cables, 
Boats, Sails, Spars, &c &c &c 

Ship Carpenter's Bill . . . Sterl 15 

Ship Chandler's Bill 45 

Sail Maker's Bill 25 

Black Smith's Bill 10 

Block Maker's Bill 7 10 

Tear & Wear of the Vessel at 

the rate of 15 per cent per 

annum on £583 6 8 Sterlg 

per amount her value for 3 

Months is 21 17 6 124 7 6 



SterUng 271 8 1 



Portage Bill and Charges of a Middling Sized Vessel for 3 
Months, say the Schooner Escape, Vizt: — 

Master 6 Guineas per Month at 21/93^ Doll 4/8. £19 12 
Mate 20 Dollars per Month 14 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 239 

3 Seamen 15 Dollars per Month each 31 10 

2 Barrells Beef at £7 Cur- 
rency £14 

1^2 Barrels Pork 8 10 0.. 12 15 

2 Bushells Pease 12 1 4 

4CtWtBread 3 4 0. 14 8 

Rum, Fresh Meat, Cabbin 
Stores &c 15 



Currency 57 7 Sterl 33 



Carried forward £98 11 

Schooner Escape's Portage Bill & Charges Con- 
tinued £98 11 

Ship Carpenter's Bill Sterling £ 5 

Ship Chandler's Bill 15 

Sail Maker's Bill 10 

Black Smith's Bill 5 

Block Maker's Bill 2 10 37 10 



Tear and wear of the Vessel at 15 per Cent per 

Annum is for 3 Months on £500 Sterling 18 15 



Sterlmg £154 16 1 

Portage Bill and Charges for one of the Small Sized Vessels 
for 3 Months Hire at 13/ Sterling per Ton Sloop Brittannia 
Viz*:— 

Master per Month 20 Dollars at 4/8 £14 

2 Seamen 15 Dollars 21 

Ship Chandler's Bill 15 

Ship Carpenter's Bill 7 

Sail Maker's Bill... 5 10 

Black Smith's and Block Maker's Bill 5 10 

Tear and wear of this Vessel at 15 per cent per 

annum on £300 Sterling for 3 Months 11 5 



Sterling £79 5 



240 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

Portage Bill and Charges of one of the Vessels hired at 6d 
Currency per Ton per day for 3 Months, Sloop Sir James 
Wallace Viz*: — 

Master 20 Dollars per Month £14 

2 Seamen 15 Doll' per Month each 21 

Ship Chandler's Bill 10 

Ship Carpenter's Bill 7 

Sail Maker's Bill 5 

Black Smith's & Block Maker's Bills 5 

Tear and wear at 15 per Cent per annum on £225 

Sterling for 3 Months is 8 8 9 



Sterling 70 8 9 

Portage Bill and Charges of the Armed Sloop Neptune for 
three Months Viz*: — 

Master 10 Guineas per Month 21/93^ £32 13 4 

Mate 6 Guineas per Month 19 12 

Gunner 20 Dollars per Mo 14 

Boatswain 20 Dolls per Mo 14 

24 Seamen at 15 Doll per Mo each 252 

11 Barrels Beef 

£7 Currency £77 
9 Barrels Pork 

8 10 76 10 

25 Ct Wt of Bread 

3 4 80 

11 Bushels of Pease 

12 6 12 

Rum, Fresh Meat, Cabbin 
Stores &c 70 



Currency £ 310 Sterling 180 17 10 



Ship Carpenter's Bill Sterling £20 

Ship Chandler's Bill 40 

Sail Maker's BiU 25 

Block Maker's & Black Smith's 
Bills 15 



OP THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 241 

Tear and wear at 15 per cent 
per annum on £1200 Sterl- 
ing for 3 Months 45 145 



Sterling £658 



Portage Bill & Charges on the Armed Sloop Peggy for three 
Months Viz':— 

Master at £10 SterHng per Month £30 

Mate 5 Sterling per Mo 15 

12 Seamen 15 Dolls per Mo each 126 

Currency per Barrel 
5^ Barrel's of Beef at £7 £38 10 
43^ Barrels of Pork... 8 10 38 5 
12HCtWt of Bread. 3 4 40 
53^ Bushels of Pease . 12/ £3 6 
Rum, Fresh Meat, Cabbin 
Stores &c 50 

Currency £170 1 Sterling £ 99 3 11 

Ship Carpenter's Bill SterL. . £10 

Ship Chandler's Bill 25 

Sail Maker's Bill 10 

Black Smith's & Block Makers 5 50 

Tear and wear at 15 per cent per annum on £1200 
Sterl for 3 Months is 45 



Sterling £365 3 11 



Portage Bill & Charges for 3 Months on 4 Dis- 
patch Boats one with another at £220 Sterling £220 

N. B. — The charges upon Vessels depend so much upon 
Circumstances that the Expences attending any one particular 
Vessel can never be the same for two Quarters together. 

Instances can be given in each quarter when the hire upon 
several Vessels are less than the Expenditures. 



242 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

The above Calculations are therefore made upon an average 
of the whole. 



No. 26 of the 
Aggregate 

An account of Material's requisite to fit out a sloop or 
Schooner of about 120 Tons burthen with the prices of each 
Article. 

Hull at per Ton built new, with lower Masts, Bow- 

sprit and lower yards compleat 

N. Y. C. New York Curr'y 
Spars 

Jib Boom 5 12 

Square Sail Boom 13 1 4 

Square Sail Yard 14 18 8 

Cross Jack Yard 13 1 4 

Top Sail Yard 7 9 4 

Studding sail Booms on each 

side 3 14 8 £57 17 4 

Cables & Anchors 

Best Bower Cable 20Ct 1 Wt 

at 120/PrCt 121 10 

Small Bower Cable 12 1 Wt 

at 120/ pr 73 10 

1 Anchor 7 Wt new at 1/ 

pr Lb 39 4 

1 " 5 Wt « at 1/ pr Lb 28 
1 " Cadge 2 Wt " at 1/ 

pr lb 11 273 8 



Sails and making 

yds 

Main Sail 240 of Canvas 
No 2 at 3/2 pr yd 38 

Fore sail 130 " " 

No. 2 at 3/2 20 11 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 243 

New York Currency 
Jibb 150 yds of canvass 

No. 2 at 3/2 23 15 

Flying Jibb 100 " " 

No. 7 at 2/8 13 6 8 

Square Sail 116 " " 

No. 7 at 2/8 15 7 4 

Top sail 60 " « 

No. 7 at 2/8 8 

Top Gallant Sail 40 " « 

light at 1/4 2 13 4 

Ring Tail Sail 30 " « 

« at 1/4 2 

2 Top Mast Studding sails 

60 yds " " at 1/4 3 10 
Water Sail 20 " « 

at 1/4 1 6 8 

To the Sail Maker for Twine 

& making the above sails. . 43 14 172 4 4 

Carried forward £503 9 8 



Brought forward 503 9 

Cordage 
Topping lift 40 Fathom 33^ Ct 

Inch Rope 1 1 

Fore lift 20 " 2J^ 

Inch Rope 2 

Pack lift 25 " 23^ 

Inch Rope 2 14 

Main Sheets 30 " 33^ 

Inch Rope 1 

Throat & peck down hawls 9 

Fathom 15th Rat Line. ... 20 

Bom Gye Pendant 3 fathom 

43^ Inch 1 

Boom Takles 14 fathom 23/^ 

Inch 2 14 

4 3 at 120 pr ct 28 10 



244 



PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 



Reef Pendants for the Main Sail 
For the Reefs 4 Dozen Net line 
Main Stay 9 Fathom 

63^ Inch Rope 10 

Jib Stay 11 « 

4^ " 1 

Flying Jib Stay 11 " 

3 Inch rope 1 14 

Top Mast Stay 14 « 

2 Inch rope 10 

Main Shrouds 2 pair a side 

4^ inch Rope 2 

Top Mast Do 1 « 

2 Inch rope 1 

Rat line for Shrouds 1 Corl of 

Nine thread 1 

5 

Two Hawl Yards 16 Fathom 

23^^ Inch 

Jib " 20 " 

21/2 Inch 2 

Flying Gib « 24 « 

iy2 Inch 2 

Square Sail " 35 " 

13^ Inch 2 

Top Sail " & Tye &c 

24 fathom 13^ Inch 1 

Top Gallant « 12 " 

13^ Inch 14 

Studing Sail down hawl 9 

fathom 13/2 Inch 14 

Studing Sail Tacks & Sheets 

50 fathom 1 Inch 1 14 

Down hawl for fore Sail 7 

fathom 1 Inch 14 

Down hawl for the Jib 9 

fathom 13^ Inch 14 



New York Currency 
1.10 



3 4 at 120 pr ct35 5 



1 14 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 245 

New York Currency 
Down hawl for flying Jib 12 

fathom 15th Rat Line 14 

2 Square Sail braces 10 fathom 

2 inch 14 

2 Cross Jack yard braces 10 

fathom 2 inch 14 

2 Top sail yd. braces 12 

fathom 11/^ inch 14 

2 Square Sail braces Ufts 10 

fathom 13^ inch 14 

2 Cross Jacks yd. braces\„ -p. « -.a 

2 Top Sail yd. braces / 
2 Square Sail Clew lines 10 

fathom 13/2 inch 14 

2 Top Sail " 9 fathom 

13^ inch 14 

2 Square Sail Sheets 6 fathom 

3 inch 1 

2 Top Sail Sheets 10 fathom 

31^ inch 1 14 

Fore Sheets 2 9 fathom 

2 inch 1 

Jib Sheets 2 14 « 

2 inch 1 14 

Flying " 2 14 « 

2 inch 1 14 

5 2 14 at 120 pr Ct 33 15 

101 
One Moses built Boat & Oars 
&c 35 

Carried forward £639 9 8 

Brought forward £639 9 8 

Block Maker's Account 
2 Double Blocks for their Main 

Sheets 80/ & 4 for the Top 

Mast lifts 30/ 5 10 



246 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

New York Currency 
4 Double Blocks for the 

Hawl Yards 54/ 2 double 

and 2 Single for the Boom 

Tackel 60/ 5 14 

4 Hawl yards " for the 

Gib 16/ & 24 Sail Blocks 

72/ 4 8 

16 Dead Eyes of Nine Inch 

for the Shrouds 6 8 

8 " for the Bolt Sprit 

28/& 6doz Hanks36/... 3 4 
2 " for stay and one 

heart 1 

1 Double and 1 Single Block 

for Jib stay 12 

2 Dead Eyes for square Sail 

Hause 14 

2 Blocks 12 Inches for Square 

Sail Boom 24/ and 2 Run- 
ner Blocks 24/ 2 8 

2 Double " 12 Do for 

the Takel 48/ & 16 Mast 

Hoops 16/ 3 4 

2 Pumps with upper and lower 

Boxes 13 18 

2 Pumps Breaks and 8 Boxes 

Leathered 2 10 49 10 

Boatswain's Stores 

Marline Spikes 2 at 3/3 per 
wood Axes 2 at 12/ Ham- 
mers 2 at 5/ 2 Crow Bars 
20/ 4 6 

Hand & Dip Sea lead 18/ 

Hand & Dip Sea line 34/.. 2 12 

Tar pualing for the Hatches 
27/ Hatch Bars Locks & 
Keys 60/ 4 7 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 247 

New York Currency 
Ensign and Pendant Staff & 

Hawlyard &c 8 

2 Log Lines, Reel & Log Book 

24/ 1 two hour Glass 6/ 1 

Hour Glass 4/ 1 14 

1 Half Hour Glass 3/ 1 Quarter 

Hour Glass 3/ 2 half Minute 

Glasses 6/ 12 

2 Wooden Compasses 16/ 

Lamp for Binnacle 8/ 14 22 9 6 



Cook's Stores 
1 Flesh Fork 6/ 1 Ladle 6/6 
4 Wooden Bowls or Platters 
12/ Pot hooks 8/ Frying 
Pan 10/ Grid Iron 8/. . . . 2 10 



£723 



N. B. In case of losing a 
Mast it would cost 50 
Guineas to replace it 93 



No 27 of the 
Aggregate 

Return of the Number of Horses in the Quarter Master 
General's Department that have Died from the 1st July 1779 
to the 1st September 1781 

Between the 1st July and 31st December 1779 359 

1st January & 31 March 1780.... 293 

1st April and 30 June 147 

1st July and 31st December 228 

1st January and 31st March 1781 190 

1st April and 1st Sept 237 

Total Number of Horses died in two Years & two 

Months in the District of New York 1454 



248 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

N. B. — The death of the above Horses are Certified by the 
Command^ Officers of Corps and the Officers of the Department 
to whom they were attached, in regular Certificates which are 
weekly transmitted to the Quarter Master General's office and 
there filed and entered in a Book. 

Exclusive of the above there are Horses bought by Captain 
Vallancey Asst Dep Qu^ M^ General in Virginia to replace those 
sent with the Corps from hence a few Months ago, that have 
died from hard labour and other Casualties, will amount at 
least to one hundred, by what may be judged by his last Letters. 

There were several Horses also lost by people sent on Secret 
Services and by Guides and Expresses, exclusive of the above. 



No 28 of the 
Aggregate 

Extract of a Letter to Major Bruen from a Gentlemen 
conversant in Business to whom he had submitted the Con- 
sideration of some Papers for his opinion. 

"The Paper entitled a Sketch of the Quarter Master Gen- 
eral's Department at New York for three Months from 1st 
January to 31st March 1781 and the other called a Compara- 
tive View to purchase or Hire &c are very extraordinary pro- 
ductions indeed. 

"The first is Calculated to shew that when the Vessels, 
Horses and Waggons became the property of Government, that 
there would be a saving of no less than £186802 10 8 N. 
York Currency per annum in the Quart Master General's De- 
partment alone. I shall only remark on this that the Calcu- 
lator should have recollected that there ought to be an allow- 
ance made of Wear and Tear of such articles in an Ample 
manner, especially as all articles bear from 100 to 300 per cent 
more than thej' formerly did. 

"The allowance of £5 Sterling per Mo is not equal to the 
pay and Provisions of the Men. There ought also an allow- 
ance to be made for Masters and Under Officers as well as 
Seamen for the Vessels at a proportional advanced price. 

"But what appears most extraordinary there is no allow- 
ance made for the first Cost of all these Vessels, Horses and 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 249 

Waggons. How the Author of the Sketch could overlook so 
Capital a point can't be devised, unless he imagined the Pro- 
prietors were to compliment Government with them. It can 
only be paralleled by the mode on which the comparative View 
is stated, where the prices of these articles are allowed, but 
their necessary Expences totally omitted. 

"Their sketch appears only to be made preparative to the 
Comparative View which requires a more serious investi- 
gation. It would appear from this that £180116 11 5 New 
York Currency would be sufficient to purchase all the Vessels, 
Horses and Waggons in the Qu^ M^ General's Barrack Master 
General, Commissary General, and Engineer Departments, and 
on the opposite side is put down the Hire for three Months 
actually paid by Government from January 1st to March 31st 
1781. £90448 14 2 New York Currency, which for Six 
Months makes £180897 8 4 of the same Money hereby 
insinuating that Six Months hire is £780 16 11 more than 
would purchase all the Vessels Horses, and Waggons in the 
several Departments. 

"The person who stated this Account has not thought 
proper perhaps it might not have served his purpose so well to 
put down the iiecessary Expenditures for the support of these 
different and very expensive Engines of Water & Land Carriage ; 
it therefore behooves the Gentlemen at the heads of Departments 
to make up this Account immediately and after the Ballance is 
struck the Board of General Officers will be able to determine 
whether there appears a profit or saving to Government suffi- 
cient to induce a Purchase in preference to the mode of hireing 
as heretofore. 

"Here is a striking implication on the face of the Compara- 
tive View as it now stands, that the Proprietors of these Vessels, 
Horses and Waggons are in the receipt for the first Year of £181678 
5 3 New York Currency, and for the second not less than 
£361794 16 8 clear profit! And so on from year to year as 
as long as Vessels can be supposed to be Navigated without 
Men and Provisions, stores and Materials. Horses not to Die 
or be worn out, Waggons to Move without Men, or any allow- 
ance for the repairs or renewal of them and their 
Harness." 



250 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

No 29 of the 
Aggregate 

New York 6th October 1781. 

Gentlemen : — 

My ill state of health has 'till now prevented my replying 
to your Letter of 23d August, respecting the Horses and Waggons 
belonging to the Qu"" M- General's Department. And to which 
I can readily answer that I have on many occasions received 
the most essential assistance from them, and that at times when 
no others could be procured, that a Number have been con- 
stantly employed in transporting Provisions and Forage to and 
from the different Posts and Magazines, and without which it 
would have been impossible to have carried on the business of 
my Department and afforded the proper supplies to the Troops 
at the places to which we could not carry them by Water. 
And now beg leave to particularize some instances which will 
confirm what is before asserted. 

On the arrival of the Army at Philadelphia we found the 
Navigation of the Delaware impeded by the Forts, Armed 
Ships & Galley's of the Enemy, in such a manner that the 
Victuallers could not get up to us, and the supplies for the Army 
for near two Months were brought up in the Night in Boats & 
thrown on the beach five Miles from the Town, and the next day 
transported to the City in the Qu^ Master General's Waggons 
the most of which were for the time kept constantly employed 
in that Business, and on which the Troops depended for their 
daily subsistance. 

Several Brigades of Waggons were also employed during 
that Fall and Winter in collecting Forage, and near two thousand 
tons were brought by them to the Magazines. 

Foraging parties under strong Escorts were frequently 
ordered at the distance of fifteen and twenty Miles from the 
City, and on these Occasions from one hundred and fifty to Two 
hundred Waggons were sent out at a time and notwithstanding 
every exertion, it was with difficulty a sufficiency was obtained, 
and had we depended on the Country for Waggons the Horses 
must have starved. On the March of the Army from Phila- 
delphia thro' the Jersey's, I need not mention that the Pro- 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 251 

visions were transported by them alone, and without that 
assistance the Troops could not have fed. 

Since that time I have been much Indebted for the very- 
great assistance I have received from them in collecting Forage, 
particularly on Long Island, where a number were constantly 
employed in that Business, and transporting Provisions at times 
when Vessels could not be sent up the sound, those Waggons 
were employed to transport Provisions for the subsistance of the 
Troops to very distant Posts of Long Island. 

The greatest part of the Hay used at King'sbridge for three 
years past; which has been by no means inconsiderable, has 
likewise been brought into the Lines by those Waggons and it is 
well known that from that part of the Country we could expect 
no assistance from the Inhabitants. 

In the transporting of Provisions to the Stores they have been 
very often of great use. 

On the whole do not hesitate to say that without the aid 
received from that Establishment and which has been very 
readily granted on every occasion, the service must have fre- 
quently suffered. 

I have the honor to be 

Gentlemen, &c &c 

Daniel Wier. 
Majors Bruen & Robertson. 



No 30 of the 
Aggregate 

Major Drummond's Letter to the President of the Board of 
General Officers &c 

See page 208 



No 31 of the 
Aggregate 

Estimate of the probable Expences attending the Estab- 
lishment of a Train of Horses and Waggons, &c &c &c 



252 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

See page 210 



No 32 of the 
Aggregate 

Observations in support of the Plan presented to the Board 
See page 216 



No 33 of the 
Aggregate 

Major General Dalrymple's Letter to the President of the 
Board of General OflBcers dated 30th November 1781 

See page 220 



No 34 OF THE Aggregate 

Observations by Major General William Dalrymple Qu.*^ 
Master General Upon an Estimate of the probable Expences 
attending a Train of Horses and Waggons recommended to be 
adopted in his Department by Major Drummond. 

As by long experience only we can be enabled to prove the 
Errors incident to the most nice calculations on the Expences 
attending great Establishment. On that I shall chiefly rest my 
RepUes to the several Articles that require answers in the above 
estimate, which I find differs so much from those supported by 
matters of fact during the long duration of carrying on the 
Business of the Quarter Master General's Department. 

Article 1st and 2d 
Several Charges appear overrated and others under. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 253 

Article 3d 

It is here asserted that a saving may be made to Government 
of Twenty thousand pounds New York Currency Yearly upon 
a supposition that the Artificers, &c &c are solely employed in 
aiding the Contractors for Horses & Waggons. As the greatest 
branches of their employment seems here to be totally forgot. 
I beg leave to inform the Board that numbers have been con- 
stantly employed in cutting and sawing of Lumber for the supply 
of the Quarter Master General's Ship Yard for building and 
repairing of armed Brigs, Sloops, Row Gallies, Fiat Boats, 
Batteaux, Whale Boats, Barges, Scows & Flatts. The fitting 
up of Births in Transports and Horse Vessels, repairing of 
Stores and Stables and Various other Services and are less in 
Number than the several Duties of the Department require, the 
Contractors being often obliged to hire at their own expence. 
Artificers, &c to construct and repair the article they furnish, 
I Ukewise beg leave to mention to the Board that the assistance 
of the Artificers paid by Government was a thing very much 
attended to at the commencement of this Business, as by that 
indulgence the contractors were enabled to furnish Government 
at the low rate they now do with Horses Waggons and other 
Articles provided by the Department which otherwise could not 
be done on so easy terms, especially when every Gentlemen of 
the Board must be convinced that every Article of Expence has 
risen from one to three hundred per cent since the War com- 
menced. 

I here beg leave to lay before the Board an Information I 
Received from unquestionable authority stating the allowances 
granted by Government for the Articles by the Quarter Master 
General's Department to the Northern Army, where the same 
mode of supply exists. 

For the Hire of one small cart with-1 
out Iron work with a Driver &\-£0 7 6 Sterl per Day 
two Horses J 

Government keeping up the number of Horses worn out in the 
service as also the Carts in repair. These carts tho' not capable 
of carrying above one third of the Load of one of the small 
Waggons which are furnished here for Six pence Sterling per day 



254 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

less and the loss of Horses dying & worn out in the Service made 
good by the Contractors. 

Article 4th 

The destruction of Horses is here stated at one fourth part. 
I appeal to facts and refer to No 27 by which it will appear that 
upwards of one third perish within the year. The observation 
on the advantages arising to the Department on an Active 
Campaign is ill founded for in that Case the losses of Horses, 
Waggons, &c would be nearly one half of those employed in the 
Course of a Year, and the supposed advantages arising from 
Captures will lose their force when it is remembered that Stores 
&c Captured are always sold for the benefit of the Captors, so 
that those that have been taken into the Quarter Master Gen- 
eral's Department have always been paid for at a fair & Equi- 
table price. 

Article 5th 

The supposed Calculations for the Constructing of Waggons 
supply deficiencies will be found erroneous when the observa- 
tions on Article the third is considered, respecting artificers and 
advanced prices. 

Article 6th 

The price allowed for a sett of Harness in this Calculation 
is Just, but the Number of setts allowed to make good the 
deficiencies are greatly under the annual Consumption. 

Article 7th 

The Quantity of Iron sufficient, but the Contractors are 
exposed to great expences in this and other Articles, particu- 
larly at distant posts, where the Artificers of the Department 
cannot attend. 

Article 8th 

The allowance made for greasing of the Wheels &c is ad- 
mitted to be ample. 

Article 9th 

Experience in this Article proves the Expences attending it 
much greater than here stated. Nor do I think were the 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 255 

Expences incurred in Collecting and transporting the old Horse 
Shoes &c considered, that it would in any degree alleviate it. 

In summing up and stating the above Articles and in the 
contrasting them with the Expences actually to be incurred, I 
find that Major Drummond has made no allowance either for 
the original price of Horses, Waggons, &c nor Exchange nor 
Interest upon so large a sum of Money as it would require to be 
laid out by Government in purchasing them which surely ought 
to be a primary Consideration in those investigations as well as 
the certain loss of two thirds of the purchase Money which 
infallibly must be the Case at the end of the War. 

Notwithstanding all that has been said upon this subject I 
wish to assure your Excellency and the Gentlemen of the Board 
that I shall be happy in submitting myself to your better 
Judgment and ready to adopt any alterations in the mode of 
carrying on the Department under my Charge that you shall 
think advisable. 

Wm Dalrymple. 

New York 30th Nov 1781. 

Tuesday 4th December 1781. 
The Board met agreeable to orders from His Excellency 
General Robertson 

Present 
His Excellency Lieut General Robertson 
General Campbell 
General Paterson 
The Hon^'i' And" Elliot, Esq 
The Board having considered the papers and Examinations 
brought before them relative to the Comparative State of 
Expences incurred from 31st December 1775 to the 16th May 
1778 the time of Sir W" Howe's Command and of what was 
paid by Sir Hem-y Chnton between the 26th May 1778 and the 
31st December 1780 the first being two years & five Months and 
the other two years and seven Months. The Warrants granted 
during the first period amount to £1079412. During the second 
period the Warrants amount to £3278429 the difference being 
£2199016. 



256 PROCEEDINGS OF A BOARD OF GENERAL OFFICERS 

The Board Reports. 

That the great National Expence in the first period of Sir 
William Howe's Command arose from the whole Navy, and a 
very numerous Fleet of Transports being employed in attending 
the movements of the Army, no part of which appears in Sir 
William Howe's Warrants. 

That the Expence of the Quarter Master General, Barrack 
Master General and Engineer Departments were necessarily 
small while the Troops were on Board ships, or had their supplys 
from Transports. 

It is observed that during part of the first period the great 
Article of Expence Rum, was provided for by a contract made at 
home and paid for there. Whereas during the second period, 
the Rum was purchased by the Commissary General, and paid 
for by the Commander in Chief's Warrants. 

A very large quantity of Provisions purchased during the 
latter period, swells the amount of the Warrants. But what 
destroys a possibility of drawing any just conclusion from a 
comparison of the Amount of the Warrants in these two periods, 
arises from this, that a great part of the expence incurred by 
Sir William Howe was paid by Warrants granted by Sir Henry 
Clinton, these being all the observations the Board find neces- 
sary to make on Major Drummond's papers. No. 1 and 2. 
They proceed to examine No 3. 

General Robertson laid before the Board Major Drummond's 
Answer to the papers given him at last meeting 17th September, 
with an Estimate of the probable Expences attending the 
Establishment of a Train of Horses & Waggons in the same 
proportion as now Employed in the Quarter Master General's 
Department with observations in support of the same, and a 
Letter of the 20th ulto to General Robertson. 

General Robertson laid before the Board a letter from 
General Dalrymple Quarter Master General, dated the 30th 
ulto with Estimates and Letters relative to his Department. 
Major Drummond informed the Board that he had formed the 
Paper No 3 in the Month of August last on an idea that half the 
Expence of the payments made in One year for the Hire of 
Vessels, Carriages, Horses &c in the Quarter Master General's 
Department, would purchase for the Crown, the whole property. 



OF THE BRITISH ARMY AT NEW YORK, 1781 257 

That on an examination of such a complicated subject he had 
reason to believe his ideas had not been perfectly exact, but as 
some changes of Circumstances had happened since that time, 
that made the measure of making purchases in his opinion on 
any calculation improper. He thought it his duty to save the 
Court the pain of being involved in Calculations and over- 
whelmed with Treatises on a measure, the adoption of which on 
account of the above mentioned alteration in Circumstances 
may have rendered improper. 

A doubt arose whether this declaration did not put an end to 
the Business of a Board, which appears to be called principally 
for the Consideration of this question. 

The Board Adjourn 'till to morrow that the Commander in 
Chief's pleasure might be taken on the subject. 



Head Quarters December 4th, 1781. 
Sir:— 

I beg leave to request that your Excellency will have the 
goodness to assemble the several Members of the Board over 
which you preside, and make a Report to me as soon as possible 
of the proceedings thereof, accompanied with all the Papers that 
have been laid before it by the Commissary of Accounts and the 
principals of the different departments, in order that I may be 
the better able to judge what further Instructions are necessary 
to be given. 

I have the honor to be &c &c 

H. Clinton. 

His Excellency 

Lieut General Robertson. 

December 5th 

All the Members of the Board being assembled. General 
Robertson laid before them the Commander in Chief's letter 
dated the 4th Instant directing a Report to be made as soon as 
possible of the Proceedings of the Board, accompanied with all 
the Papers laid before it. 



258 PROCEEDINGS AT NEW YORK, 1781 

The Board directed that all the Proceedings & Papers should 
be sent to the Commander in Chief. 

The foregoing are the Original Proceedings of the Board. 

James Robertson, 

President. 

Lieutenant General Robertson 

to His Excellency Sir Henry Clinton, K, B. 

New York 5th December 1781. 
Sir:— 

In compliance with the Letter I had the honor to receive 
from Your Excellency last night, I summoned the Gentlemen 
of the Board to meet this morning, and with their approbation 
send your Excellency all the proceedings of the Board with all 
the papers that have been laid before us with a List. 

The enquiries the Board thought necessary to make, and the 
illness of some persons whose Answers they thought Material, 
has given an appearance of tardiness to the proceedings, but all 
the Members beg leave to say that they have spared no trouble, 
or omitted any attention to a subject of so much importance. 
They are sorry that they have been able to give no opinion but 
on the papers numbered 1 & 2 Their enquiries into Number 3 
and the subsequent Numbers have shown them as yet little 
more than the extent of the subject, and convinced them that a 
short space of time is not sufficient for a proper discussion. 

I have in the Name of the Board, the honor to be. Sir, 
Your Excellency's most obedient humble Servant, 

James Robertson. 



INDEX 



Acker, Thomas, cartman, 140. 

Acker, William, driver, 151. 

Ackerman, Charles, stacker, 130. 

Ackling, Philip, master, 65, 166. 

Adams, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 

Adams, John, carpenter, 157. 

Adams, John, laborer, 132. 

Adams, John, master, 49, 67, 160. 

Adams, Philip, laborer, 122. 

Adams, Wilham, driver, 144. 

Adams, WilUam, master, 65. 

Adjutant - General's Department, 
number of persons in the, victu- 
alled at New York, 86; men- 
tioned, 30, 90. 

Aeling, Philip, master, 166. 

Affleck, Commodore, mentioned, 92. 

Agent's office mentioned, 87. 

Agnes, schooner, 44, 66, 158. 

Agnus, Walter, conductor, 54. 

Aireton, WiUiam, conductor, 54. 

Albany, sloop, 26, 46. 

Alder, Benjamin, master, 164. 

Alexander, sloop, 26, 46. 

Algee, John, laborer, 122. 

Allcott, Joseph, driver, 192. 

Allego, Robert, driver, 184. 

AUen, Michael, cartman, 140. 

AUen, Patrick, driver, 116. 

Allen, William, overseer, 55. 

Allick, Pollydore, negro laborer, 141. 

Allison, John, laborer, 132. 

Allway, Thomas, driver, 151. 

Alsop, Joseph, driver, 186. 

Amos, George, seaman, 145. 

Anderson, Isaac, carpenter, 154. 

Anderson, James, laborer, 132. 

Anderson, John, carpenter, 147. 

Anderson, Mathew, driver, 186. 

Anderson, Peter, master, 65, 164. 

Anderson, William, driver, 144. 

Anderson, William, laborer, 124, 
129. 

Angus, Robert, carpenter, 154. 

Anhalt, John, driver, 182. 

Ansley, Amos, joiner, 177. 

Ansley, John, joiner, 51. 

Anthony, Mr., laborer, 148. 

Antrim, negro laborer, 123. 

Apple, Conradt, driver, 178. 

Apple, Jacob, laborer, 132. 

Appleby, James, driver, 112. 



Appleby, Luke, driver, 112. 

Appollo, sloop, 26, 44, 66, 158. 

Arcus, Leonard, batteauxman, 167. 

Argrove, Henry, driver, 172. 

Armstrong, Jesse, sawyer, 51, 177. 

Armstrong, John, laborer, 123, 124. 

Armstrong, Joseph, seaman, 145. 

Arnold, Brig.-Gen. Benedict, men- 
tioned. 30, 90, 168. 

Arnold, brig, 26, 44, 66, 158. 

Arnold, George, driver, 170. 

Arnold, Stephen, carpenter, 125. 

Arnold, Thomas, driver, 178. 

Arnot, WiUiam, driver, 114. 

Arrowsmith, Henry, carpenter, 52, 
182. 

Arthur, Joseph, carpenter, 155. 

Arthur, negro laborer, 137. 

Arthur, Peter, carpenter, 149. 

Artificers mentioned, 73, 88, 95, 
199, 210. 

Artillery mentioned, 32, 77; num- 
ber of men, women and children 
of the horse department of, vic- 
tualled at New York, 86. 

Ash, Will, negro laborer, 141. 

Ashman, negro laborer, 137, 139. 

Atkins, Robert, driver, 151. 

Atkins, Sam, negro laborer, 141. 

Attorney-General mentioned, 92. 

Augusta, Ga., garrison at, 100. 

Austin, David, carpenter, 140. 

Austin, William, master, 48. 

Aw, Thomas, driver, 170. 

AxteU, Col., mentioned, 92. 

Aylwood, Asher, carpenter, 149. 

Aylwood, Benjamin, carpenter, 149. 

Aylwood, James, carpenter, 147. 

Aymar, Daniel, sawj^er, 153. 

Baalman, John, laborer, 128. 
BaiUiff, WiUiam, blacksmith, 52. 
Baily, Richard, master, 164. 
Bainacan, James, driver, 192. 
Baine, John, laborer, 55. 
Baird, WiUiam, foreman, 153. 
Baker, Joseph, sawyer, 149. 
Baker, Joseph, smith, 147. 
Baker, Robert, ship carpenter, 50, 

176. 
Baker, Robert, Jr., ship carpenter, 

50. 



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INDEX 



Baker, William, ship carpenter, 50. 

Balfour, Mr., master, 45, 67, 158. 

Ball, John, carpenter, 147. 

Ball, Peter, butcher, 122. 

Ballingtine, James, master, 47, 69, 
160. 

Baltimore, ship, 27, 46, 66, 160. 

Baltzer, John, driver, 188. 

Bambury, Wally, driver, 192. 

Bane, David, carpenter, 128. 

Banks, Josiah, carpenter, 148. 

Banta, Henry, blacksmith, 53. 

Barbarea, Adam, laborer, 134. 

Barber, John, carpenter, 152. 

Bardine, John, carpenter, 152. 

Barker, James, driver, 172. 

Barlow, Joseph, carpenter, 150. 

Barlow, Thomas, sawyer, 157. 

Barnett, Samuel, carpenter, 149. 

Barnett, WUliam, sawyer, 153. 

Barnham, Dick, negro laborer, 141. 

Barrack Master's Department, 
comparative view of expenses of 
the, 6, 8, 12, 24-25, 97-103, 197- 
199; co-st of maintenance for one 
year, 20-21; Ust of vessels em- 
ployed in the, 28, 29, 94-95, 164- 
167, 195-196; mentioned, 36, 58, 
64-65, 76, 93, 221, 225, 233, 256; 
comparative view to purchase or 
hire vessels, wagons and horses 
for the, 38, 40, 42; letter to the, 
80; number of men, women and 
children in the, victualled at New 
York, 86, 89; return of the places 
of the, 94-95; muster roll of arti- 
ficers, laborers, etc., employed in 
the, 140-146; letter concerning 
the administration of the, 204. 

Barren Island mentioned, 208. 

Barret, James, driver, 184. 

Barrington, sloop, 26. 

Barry, Waldron, carpenter, 153. 

Barter, John, carpenter, 156. 

Bartley, Joseph, laborer, 57. 

Barwell, John, driver, 118. 

Basken, David, driver, 192. 

Batteaux and Boatmen, number of, 
victualled at New York, 87. 

Baum, Adam, driver, 186. 

Bauman, George, driver, 174. 

Baures, Thomas, carpenter, 157. 

Baxter, George, laborer, 194. 

Bayard, Abraham, driver, 184. 

Bayard, Jack, laborer, 134. 

Bayard, Samuel, clerk, 54, 109. 

Bayley, John, laborer, 132. 

Bayley, Richard, master, 69. 

Beach, Jacob, driver, 192. 



Beackman, Jack, laborer, 134. 

Beard, Mathew, laborer, 132. 

Bears, Moses, master, 164. 

Beaton, William, laborer, 129. 

Beatty, Joseph, master, 49, 69, 160. 

Beaver, Pettiaugre, 27, 48, 68, 160. 

Bedson, Joseph, laborer, 124. 

Beekman, Jeremiah, laborer, 129. 

Beers, William, sawyer, 150. 

Beevin, Francis, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Beggars, Bennison, sloop, 28. 

Belcher, Robert, laborer, 125. 

Ben, negro laborer, 123. 

Benedick, Comfort, laborer, 136. 

Bennett, Cupid, negro laborer, 141. 

Bennitt, Thomas, driver, 182. 

Bentley, Felix, carpenter, 147. 

Berger, Philip, driver, 136. 

Bergen Point mentioned, 103, 207, 
208. 

Bermuda, W. I., garrison at, 100. 

Bernard, Christopher, carpenter, 
149. 

Bete, Christoph, driver, 106. 

Betsey, schooner, 27, 29, 46, 68, 95, 
164. 

Betsey, sloop, 25, 26, 66, 160, 162. 

Betty, schooner, 64, 196. 

Bidder, Charles, master, 47. 

Biddulph, Mr., mentioned, 92. 

Bigger, John, laborer, 123. 

Bill, negro laborer, 136. 

Birch, Brig.-Gen. Samuel, ap- 
pointed member of the Board, 3; 
attends meeting, 4, 58, 60, 70, 80, 
104, 105, 157, 194, 195, 196; men- 
tioned, 28, 90. 

Bird, Luke, carpenter, 150. 

Bischausen, Maj.-Gen. Carl E., 
mentioned, 90, 107. 

Black, Ichobad, wagoner, 144. 

Black, Jack, seaman, 146. 

Black, James, driver, 116, 118, 174. 

Black, Joseph, driver, 118. 

Black, Joseph, laborer, 56. 

Black, Peter, seaman, 145. 

Black, Richard, seaman, 145. 

Black, Samuel, seaman, 146. 

Black, Thomas, driver, 172. 

Black, Thomas, seaman, 146. 

Blackburn, Patrick, seaman, 146. 

Blackford, Martin, carpenter, 148. 

Black Joke, sloop, 27, 46, 66, 160. 

Blacksmiths mentioned, 14, 22, 42, 
210; Ust of, 51, 52, 53, 110, 147- 
148, 177, 182, 191, 238, 239, 240, ' 
241. 

Blake, Alexander, seaman, 145. 

Blewitt, WiUiam, master, 69, 162. 



INDEX 



261 



Blissards, James, carpenter, 149. 

Blockmakers mentioned, 238, 239, 
240, 241, 245. 

Blosach, Burchart, carpenter, 182. 

Blowett, Daniel, sawyer, 157. 

Bogart, Daniel, laborer, 141. 

Bogart, Gysbart, carpenter, 147. 

Bogart, John, cartman, 141. 

Bogart, Peter, laborer, 132. 

Boggs, John, mason, 147. 

Bombarn, negro laborer, 142. 

Bond, John, carpenter, 150. 

Bonta, Henry, blacksmith, 110. 

Book, George, driver, 188. 

Booth, John, foreman, 148. 

Borras, James, carpenter, 191. 

Boscow, John, laborer, 122. 

Boston, Mass., mentioned, 71, 97. 

Boulbe, Charles, carpenter, 153. 

Bourdett, Henry, driver, 116. 

Bourdett, Oliver, Wagon-Master- 
Gen'l. 54, 108, 109, 111, 115, 121, 
181. 

Bourke, Walter, sawyer, 154. 

Bowers, James, carpenter, 51. 

Boyers, William, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Boyes, WiUiam, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Boyle, George, driver, 172. 

Boys, William, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Bradburn, Alexander, laborer, 132. 

Bradley, John, laborer, 134. 

Bradshaw, James, sawyer, 154. 

Bradshaw, Peter, carpenter, 153. 

Brady, Patrick, laborer, 125. 

Brady, Richard, master, 47, 67, 
158; mentioned, 208. 

Brasher, Baker, laborer, 123. 

Braum, Erich, driver, 178. 

Braun, Adam, driver, 106. 

Brewer, Charles, carpenter, 150. 

Brewery mentioned, 18. 

Bridewell, N. Y. City, 94. 

Bridge Master's Department, num- 
ber of persons in the, victualled at 
New York, 86; mentioned, 36, 93. 

Brinley, Caesar, laborer, 134. 

Brinley, Felix, laborer, 134. 

Brinley, George, Commissary of 
Forage, 137. 

Britannia, sloop, 26, 46, 66, 160. 

British Army in America, method of 
diminishing expenses, proposed 
by Major Drummond, 1-2; mus- 
ter of the several departments to 
to be taken, 4; letter to the heads 
of the departments of the, 5, 56; 
comparative view of expenses in 
the different departments of, 6- 
14, 24-25; amount of rum bought 



in America each year for the, 10; 
provisions bought in America each 
year for the, 10; sketch of the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment, 14, 16, 70-79; cost of main- 
taining the Commissary General's 
Department for one year, 16-19; 
cost of maintaining the Barrack 
Master's Department, 20, 21; cost 
of maintaining the Engineers' 
Department, 22-23 ; list of vessels 
employed in the several depart- 
ments of the, 24-29 ; return of driv- 
ers, horses and wagons furnished 
by the Quartermaster General's 
Department, 28-37; comparative 
view to purchase or hire vessels, 
horses and wagons for the differ- 
ent departments of the, 38-41; 
sketch of a plan to control and 
direct the various departments of 
the, 43-45; return of vessels for 
use in the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral's Department, 44-49, 68-69, 
158-163; hst of tradesmen em- 
ployed in the Quartermaster 
General's Department, 50-57,108- 
113; return of vessels for use in 
the Barrack Master General's 
Department, 64-65, 164-167, 195, 
-196; return of vessels for use 
in the Commissary General's De- 
partment, 68-71, 162-165; muster 
of all vessels and men in the mili- 
tary departments of the, ordered, 
79; rum the greatest ex-pense 
in the Commissary's Department, 
81 ; sketch of the Commissary's 
Department of the, 81-93; re- 
turn of number of men, women 
and children of the, victualled at 
New York, 84-89; return of horses 
foraged at New York, 89-93; es- 
timate of expense of 100 horses 
per year, 93; return of drivers, 
horses and wagons attached to 
the Hessian Staff and Corps, 104- 
109; return of drivers, horses and 
wagons attached to several regi- 
ments, 114-115; return of drivers, 
etc., in Quartermaster General's 
Department, 116,-117; muster 
roll of artificers, laborers, etc., 
employed in the Commissary 
General's Department, 120-125, 
126-140; muster roll of artificers, 
laborers, etc., employed in the 
Barrack Master General's De- 
partment, 140-146; muster roll of 



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INDEX 



artificers, sawyers, etc., employed 
in the Engineers' Department, 
146-157; return of batteaux men 
in the Quartermaster General's 
Department, 166-167; return of 
drivers, horses and wagons with 
the corps to the southward, 170- 
175; return of the sliip carpenters, 
joiners, etc., employed in the ship 
yard of the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral's Department, 176-177; re- 
turn of conductors, drivers, etc., 
in the Quartermaster General's 
Department at the six-mile stone, 
178-181; return of wagon mas- 
ters, conductors, etc., in the Quar- 
termaster General's Department 
at Fort Knyphausen, 182-189; 
muster roll of conductors, etc., in 
the Quartermaster General's De- 
partment at Brooklyn, N. Y., 
190-194; comparative view to 
purchase or hire horses, wagons, 
carts, etc., in the Quartermaster 
General's Department, 197-201, 
248-249; comparative view to 
purchase or hire vessels in the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment, 201-203; letter concerning 
the administration of the Barrack 
Master General's Department, 
204; letter concerning the admin- 
istration of the Engineers' De- 
partment, 205-206; return of bat- 
teaux, gun batteaux and scows 
belonging to the Quartermaster 
General's ship yard, 207, 208; 
estimate of expenses in the estab- 
Ushment of a train of horses and 
wagons, etc., as employed in the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment of the, 210-215; observa- 
tions in support of the plan to 
establish a train of horses and 
wagons, etc., for the, 216-220; 
letter of Maj.-Gen. Dairy mple 
concerning the administration of 
the, 220-223; memorandums rela- 
tive to the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral's Department, 223-226; num- 
ber of drivers, horses and wagons 
employed in the Quartermaster 
General's Department, 226; letter 
of Lord Cathcart concerning the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment, 226-230; portage bills and 
charges of vessels in the emploj^ 
of, 238-241; cost of materials 
necessary to fit out a sloop or 



schooner for use in the, 242-247; 
number of horses in the Quarter- 
master General's Department 
that have died from 1779 to 1781, 
247-248; letter of Daniel Weir, 
describing the assistance of the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment, 250-251; observations of 
Maj.-Gen. Wm. Dalrymple oppos- 
ing the plan to estabUsh a train of 
horses and wagons, etc., 252-255; 
report of the Board of General 
Officers of the, concerning the in- 
crease of expenses incurred from 
1778 to 1780, 255-257. 
British Regiments mentioned: 
7th Foot, 91. 
17th Foot, 30, 173. 
22d Foot, 30, 84, 91, 115, 176. 
37th Foot, 30, 84, 91, 115. 
38th Foot, 30, 84, 91, 186. 
40th Foot, 93. 
42d Foot, 30, 84, 91, 115. 
43d Foot, 30, 173. 
54th Foot, 30, 85, 91, 186. 
57th Foot, 30, 85, 91, 186. 
60th Foot, 91. 
76th Foot. 30, 173, 226. 
80th Foot, 30, 173, 175, 226. 
82d Foot, 91, 226. 
84th Foot, 91, 226. 
17th Light Dragoons, 30, 84, 91, 

207. 
American Legion, 86, 92. 
Associated Loyalists, 86, 207. 
British Recruits, 85, 181. 
De Lancey's Brigade, 32, 86, 92. 
De Lancey's Refugees, 86. 
Garrison Battalion, 32, 86, 92, 

192, 207. 
Grenadiers, 30, 84, 91. 
Guides and Expresses, 36, 112, 

117. 
Guides and Pioneers, 30, 86, 92, 

192. 
King's American Dragoons, 86, 92. 
Kings and Queens Co. Militia, 

86, 92. 
Light Infantry, 30, 73, 91, 171. 
Loyal American, 32, 86, 92, 112, 

171. 
Loyal Foresters, 86, 208. 
Loyal New Englanders, 32. 
Mounted Light Infantry, 91. 
New Jersey Volunteers, 85, 92, 

112. 
Pensacola Garrison, 85. 
Queen's Rangers, 32, 92, 175. 188, 

207. 



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Royal ArtiUery, 84, 91. 

Skinner's Brigade, 32. 

Staten Island Troop of Light 

Horse. 32. 
Troop of Hussars, 32. 188. 
Volunteers of New England, 86. 
Ward's Refugees, 86. 
Wentworth's (Gov.) Volunteer 

Troop, 32, 86, 92. 
Westchester Refugees, 92. 

Brogan, Solomon, driver, 112. 

Brompton, sloop, 24, 63, 164. 

Brooklyn Heights, L. I., muster 
roll of carpenters, sawyers, etc., 
employed in the Engineers' De- 
partment at, 155-157. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., wagon yard at, 
96; forage department at, 137; 
Barrack Master General's De- 
partment at, 143; muster roll of 
the Quartermaster General's De- 
partment at, 190-194. 

Brooklyn, N. Y., mentioned, 18, 95, 
126, 127, 136, 168, 190, 191, 192, 
195, 204, 207. 

Brooklyn, schooner, 24, 68, 162. 

Brooks, Richard, blacksmith, 51, 
177. 

Brower, Isaac, laborer, 123. 

Brown, Aaron, driver, 182. 

Brown. Andrew, carpenter, 146. 

Brown, David, driver, 186. 

Brown, Dick, negro laborer, 142. 

Brown, George, conductor, 54, 190. 

Brown, John, driver, 182. 

Brown, Mount, laborer, 134. 

Brown, Nicholas, conductor, 54. 

Brown, Nicholas, driver, 104. 

Brown, Paul, carpenter, 140. 

Brown, Thomas, driver, 114. 

Brown, Thomas, laborer, 56. 

Brown, Thomas, master, 47. 

Browne, John, driver, 172. 

Browne, Joshua, carpenter, 120. 

Bruce, Robert, foreman, 155. 

Brudenell, Rev. Mr., Chaplain to 
the Staff, mentioned, 90. 

Bruen, Maj. Henry, mentioned, 45, 
195, 216, 217, 218, 221, 224, 232, 
234, 235, 236, 237; letter to, 203, 
204, 205-206, 230-231, 231-232, 
248, 250-251; letter of, 70-74, 
74-79, 96, 169, 196, 197-199, 203- 
204, 232-233, 234. 

Bucks, Martin, eartman, 140. 

Burdick, Freedom, conductor, 143. 

Burhng Shp, N. Y. City, 16. 

Burns, Mathew, laborer, 132. 

Burtnell, Daniel, conductor, 55. 



Burwend, Rhyiihard, driver, 188. 
Busby, Benjamin, blacksmith, 53. 
Bush, Henry, smith, 147. 
Buskirk, John, carpenter, 156. 
Butchers, list of, 122, 125. 
Butler, Gillam, mentioned, 84. 
Butler, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 
Butler, John, carpenter, 151. 
Butler, John, laborer, 56. 
Butler, Josiah, seaman, 145. 
Butler, Nicholas, laborer, 122. 
Butler, William, collarmaker, 191. 
Butler, William, harnessmaker, 53. 
Buttock, Robert, conductor, 55. 
Byreman, Christopher, eartman, 

141. 
Byron, sloop, 27, 46, 66, 160. 

Caesar, negro driver, 118. 

Caesar, George, driver, 180. 

Caesar, sloop, 26, 44, 66, 158. 

Cairns, Alexander, master, 48. 

Cairns, Hugh, clerk, 54, 109. 

Camden, N. J., garrison at, 100. 

Cameron, John, laborer, 124. 

Cameron, Thomas, driver, 114. 

Cameron, William, carpenter, 154. 

Campbell, Dougal, carpenter, 50, 
190. 

Campbell, Lieut.-Gen. John, ap- 
pointed member of the Board, 3; 
attends meetings, 3, 4, 58, 60, 70, 
SO, 104, 157, 194, 195, 255; 
mentioned, 89. 

Campbell, John, conductor, 55, 182. 

Campbell, WUliam, carpenter, 152. 

Camplin, James, master, 45, 67, 158. 

Cape Fear, vessel at, 45, 69. 

Carpenters, mentioned, 14, 20, 22, 
44, 210; Ust of, 50, 51, 110, 120, 
125, 140, 146-157, 182, 190, 191. 

Carr, Norris, carpenter, 148. 

Carr, Robert, harnessmaker, 53, 
111. 

Carrickmyer, Christian, laborer, 
141. 

Carthew, Andrew, carpenter, 152. 

Carver, James, driver, 170. 

Cashan, James, laborer, 122. 

Casper, John, driver, 188. 

Cathcart, Lord, mentioned, 10, 221, 
223, 224; letter of, 226-230. 

Cato, laborer, 126, 148. 

Cato, schooner, 24, 68, 162. 

Cattle, John, carpenter, 150. 

Caulkers, Ust of, 50, 177. 

Cavenagh, Cairn, 177. 

Cebum, Cato, laborer, 134. 

Cethline, Philip, carpenter, 149. 



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INDEX 



Chads, Capt. Henry, mentioned, 
14, 157, 159, 199; return of ves- 
sels under the direction of, 44- 
49, 64-71, 159-163, 163-167; 
letter to, 59; letter from, 62-65; 
ordered to make a muster of all 
vessels and men in the military 
departments, 79. 

Chadwell, Abraham, sawyer, 150. 

Chambers, Richard, master, 69, 162. 

Chambers, Robert, laborer, 132. 

Chamier, Daniel, mentioned, 6. 

Channel, Scipio, negro laborer, 141. 

Channel, Tom, negro laborer, 141. 

Chaplain mentioned, 90. 

Charles, Cato, laborer, 134. 

Charles, George, driver, 104. 

Charlestown Heights mentioned, 
71. 

Charlestown, S. C, mentioned, 85, 
100, 224. 

Charming Sally, ship, 24. 

Charter, Archibald, wagoner, 144. 

Chase, Amos, carpenter, 140. 

Chatham, negro laborer, 139. 

Chesapeake Bay mentioned, 72, 
168, 235. 

Chester, sloop, 25. 

Chief Justice of New York and New 
Jersey mentioned, 92. 

Christholm, James, carpenter, 156. 

Christie, John, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Christopher, schooner, 26, 46, 66, 
160. 

Christy, Alexander, 177. 

Chryst, Jacob, blacksmith, 53, 182. 

Church, John C, wagoner, 144. 

Ciker^ Qeorge, butcher, 122. 

Clark, John, carpenter, 151. 

Clark, Robert, blacksmith, 53, 111. 

Clarke, Charles, driver, 172. 

Clarke, Francis R., mentioned, 75, 
227. 

Clarke, Col. George, mentioned, 6, 8. 

Clarke, James, mentioned, 142, 145. 

Clarke, Mr., mentioned, 198. 

Clarke, Neal, batteauxman, 167. 

Clarke, Pompey, negro laborer, 141. 

Clarke, Thomas, master, 69, 164. 

Clarke, William, conductor, 55. 

Claus, Henry, driver, 178. 

Clay, Scipio, laborer, 134. 

Clerk, Col., mentioned, 102. 

Clerks, mentioned, 16, 18, 20, 73, 
81, 199, 210; list of, 54, 109. 

Chnton, Sir Henry, letters to, 1-2, 
4, 226-230, 258; appoints Board 
of General Officers, 3; mentioned, 
3, 8, 12, 13, 14, 42, 56, 59, 70, 



71, 73, 89, 99, 101, 224, 231, 
255, 256; letters of, 4-5, 257. 

Clinton, schooner, 64, 95, 166, 196. 

Clisby, John, laborer, 141. 

Closing, Jonar4han, carpenter, 140. 

Cloves, Hartman, driver, 178. 

Club, John, cartman, 140. 

Cluett, John J., clerk, 54. 

Cluett, John J., storekeeper, 109. 

Coats, Joseph, laborer, 56. 

Cochran, Richard, conductor, 54. 

Cock, John, driver, ISO. 

Cockenhausen, Col. Fred V., men- 
tioned, 90; letter of, 206-207, 237. 

Cockery, William, laborer, 124. 

Cockran, Lt.-Col., mentioned, 90. 

Cockran, Richard, conductor, 108. 

Cockrane, James, cartman, 141. 

Coddington, Joseph W., assistant, 
128. 

Coggel, Christopher, master, 47. 

Coil, Patrick, sawj'er, 51. 

Coles, Dick, negro laborer, 141. 

CoUarmakers, mentioned, 42, 210; 
list of, 191. 

Collins, John, driver, 182. 

Colt, Pompey, driver, 192. 

Colt, Pompey, laborer, 57. 

Colville, Edward, driver, 182. 

Combs, Robert, stacker, 134. 

Commissariat mentioned, 88. 

Commissary General's Department, 
comparative view of expenses of 
the, 6, 8, 12; cost of maintenance 
in 1781, 16-19, 24, 25; list of ves- 
sels employed in the, 24, 25, 68- 
71, 162-165; mentioned, 30, 36, 
58, 76, 88, 93, 182, 184, 225, 234, 
256; comparative view to pur- 
chase or hire vessels, horses and 
wagons for the, 38, 40, 42; letter 
to the, 58, 80; sketch of the, 81- 
93; number of men, women and 
children in the, victualled at New 
York, 86, 89; muster roll of arti- 
ficers, laborers, etc., emploved in 
the, 120-125, 126-129, 130-142. 

Commissary of Musters mentioned, 
90. 

Conckling, Thomas, wagoner, 144. 

Conday, Robert, blacksmith, 53, 
111. 

Conductors, mentioned, 16, 36, 42, 
199, 210; list of, 54, 108, 1S2. 

Connett, William, laborer, 138. 

Connolly, James, laborer, 148. 

Connor, Daniel, foreman, 148. 

Conrad, Abraham, foreman, 148. 

Conrad, Jonathan, carpenter, 149. 



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Consaback, William, laborer, 132. 

Conyer, Sippio, driver, 112. 

Cook, John, laborer, 125. 

Cook, Obediah, laborer, 125. 

Cook, Robert, laborer, 131. 

Cooper, Samuel, laborer, 134. 

Coopers, list of. 121-122, 126-129. 

Cork, Raphl, driver, 180. 

Comwallis, Gen. Earl, mentioned, 
28, 72, 98. 

Cotton, John, batteauxraan, 166. 

Coughtcry, Richard, driver, 151. 

Cough tree, John, sawyer, 149. 

Covrall, Sack, carpenter, 191. 

Cox, Martin, driver, 116. 

Cox, Mr., mentioned, 92. 

Coyle, Patrick, sawyer, 177. 

Craigue, Robert, carpenter, 154. 

Crawford, Francis, master, 47, 67, 
160. 

Crawford, Hugh, laborer, 122. 

Craj^on, Sam, negro laborer, 141. 

Cronk, John, driver, 112. 

Crosbie, Lt.-Col. William, Barrack- 
Master-General, mentioned, 8, 140, 
144, 195-196; letter of, 58-59, 
94, 95, 97-103, 204, 237; letter to, 
232-233. 

Crouse, John, driver, 188. 

Crowell, Seth, laborer, 141. 

Cud more, WilUam, carpenter, 154. 

Cuffee, negro driver, 112, 174. 

Cuffe Major, mentioned, 30, 207. 

Cuffee, Peter, smith, 148. 

Cumming, Richard, mason, 147. 

Cunningham, Adam, yardkeeper, 
143. 

Curl, Zacheus, carpenter, 52. 

Currie, Duncan, carpenter, 152. 

Curry, Patrick, laborer, 138. 

Cursur, John, carpenter, 154. 

Curtis, Solomon, driver, 192. 

Cussans, Thomas, carpenter, 51, 
190. 

Cussons, Thomas, carpenter, 51, 
190. 

Cyprus, negro laborer, 131. 

Daily, Cornelius, carpenter, 156. 

Daily, Cornelius laborer, 136. 

Dalrymple, Gen. William, men- 
tioned, 10, 29, 74, 224, 256; letter 
of, 220-223, 230-231, 231-232, 232, 
252; observations of, upon an es- 
timate of probable expenses at- 
tending a train of horses and 
wagons, 252-255. 

Dalton, Robert, negro laborer, 141. 

DaltoD, Thomas, conductor, 178. 



Daniel, negro laborer, 129. 

David, laborer, 134. 

Davids, John, laborer, 148. 

Davidson, James, conductor, 54, 
190. 

Davidson, John, carpenter, 149. 

Davie, James, negro laborer, 142, 

Davis, Elishua, master, 69, 162. 

Davis, Isaac, carpenter, 150. 

Davis, Joseph, carpenter, 191. 

Davis, Josiah, carpenter, 52. 

Davis, Prince, laborer, 134. 

Davis, William, carpenter, 154. 

Dawson, George, carpenter, 153. 

Day, Henry, laborer, 132. 

Day, James, harnessmaker, 53. 

Day, John, laborer, 134. 

Day, Thomas, sawyer, 150. 

Dean, John, carpenter, 52, 191, 

De Baptist, John, caulker, 50, 177. 

Debois, Lewis, carpenter, 150, 

Deborah, sloop, 25. 

Decker, Levi, carpenter, 147. 

Defiance, brig, 27, 48. 

Defiance, sloop, 64, 95, 166, 196. 

Degay, James, laborer, 124. 

De Groat, John, ship carpenter, 50, 
176. 

De Groat, Peter, ship carpenter, 
176. 

De la Maitre, Isaac, driver, 144. 

De Lancey, Adj.-Gen., Oliver, letter 
of, 2, 3, 203, 236; letter to, 203, 
204, 237; mentioned, 30, 90. 

De Lanecy, Lt.-Col., Stephen, men- 
tioned, 92. 

Deligate, schooner, 68, 162. 

Demas, John D., laborer, 130. 

Demitt, negro laborer, 123. 

Demme, Martin, driver, 104. 

Denice, Dennis, mentioned, 160. 

Denice's Ferry, mentioned, 160, 207, 
208. 

Denier, William, cartman, 140. 

Dennis, Lewis, carpenter, 156. 

Denvces Fen"y, mentioned, 160, 207, 
208. 

Derrim, John, driver, 186. 

Devoir, John, carpenter, 152. 

Diana, schooner, 162. 

Diana, sloop, 26, 44, 158. 

Dice, Jacob, carpenter, 153. 

Dick, Thomas, driver, 184. 

Dickenson, Tertullus, wagoner, 144. 

Dickhaud, Jacob, driver, 186. 

Dickison, Roger, blacksmith, 53. 

Diemars, Capt., Frederick, men- 
tioned, 32, 91. 

Diligence, sloop, 27, 48, 68, 160. 



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Dillon, Amos, carpenter, 150. 

Dimie, Charles, laborer, 142. 

Disaway, Caesar, driver, 184. 

Dispatch Boats, mentioned, 14, 16, 
38, 02. 201. 

Dittman, George, driver, 178. 

Dixon, Capt., mentioned, 8. 

Dixon, Charles, carpenter, 52, 110. 

Dixon, Luke, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Dixon, William, driver, 112. 

Dobbin, Alexander, laborer, 125. 

Dodge, Barzellia, conductor, 55, 182. 

Dodge, Benjamin, caulker, 50, 177. 

Dodge, Isaac, ship carpenter, 176. 

Dodge, Thomas, foreman, 50, 176. 

Dolton, Thomas, conductor, 55. 

Dominick, Francis, carpenter, 150. 

Dooring, Peter, driver, 188. 

Dopser, Nicholas, driver, 186. 

Dorsler, John, driver, 188. 

Dorus, negro laborer, 136. 

Dorstenburg, Theodorus, driver, 
104. 

Dougal, John, laborer, 154. 

Dougherty, James, blacksmith, 53. 

Douglass, Lemuel, master, 65, 164. 

Douglass, Mathew, carpenter. 153. 

Dougle, Alexander, laborer, 154. 

Douhng, Samuel, blacksmith, 53. 

Dove, John, carpenter, 148. 

Dove, Samuel, laborer, 148. 

Dove, schooner, 164. 

Dove, sloop, 27, 48, 66, 160. 

DowUng, Dennis, stacker, 130. 

Dowling, Samuel, blacksmith, 182. 

Downey, Dennis, batteauxman, 167. 

Downs, James, carpenter, 149. 

Dwyer, Edmund, laborer, 124. 

Drake, Hugh, foreman, 147. 

Drake, Thomas, ship carpenter, 50, 
176. 

Drayer, John F., driver, 118. 

Driscoll, Jeremiah, laborer, 124. 

DrisdeU, David, 176. 

Drivers, mentioned, 18, 20, 28, 36, 
42, 210; list of, 104-108, 112, 114, 
144, 182-184. 

Drossier, Conradt, driver, 174. 

Drummond, Maj., Duncan, Comm. 
of Accounts; letters of, 1, 2, 208, 
209, 251; mentioned. 3, 4, 5, 7, 43, 
79, 90, 207, 220, 221,222, 223, 256; 
gives estimate for establishing a 
train of horses and wagons, etc., 
210-215; his observations in sup- 
port of the plan, 216-220; obser- 
vations of Maj. -Gen. Wm. Dal- 
rymple opposing the plan, 252- 
255. 



Dublin Cambridge, negro laborer, 

141. 
Duck, Peter, carpenter, 52, 182. 
Duffy, Patrick, blacksmith, 53, 110. 
Dunbar, Alexander, driver, 180. 
Duncan, brig, 26, 46, 66, 160. 
Duncan, George, seaman, 146. 
Duncan, Hugh, stacker, 130. 
Dunnam, Thomas, carpenter, 148. 
Durand, Andrew, carpenter, 151. 
Durham, Peter, driver, 116. 
Dyckmau, Cornelius, cartman, 140. 
Dyckman, George, cartman, 141. 
Dyckman, Peter, cartman, 140. 
Dyckman, Richard, cartman, 140. 
Dyckman, States M., clerk, 109. 

Eager, James, butcher, 125. 

Eagle, sloop, 26, 46, 66, 160, 162. 

East Chester, N. Y., armed schooner 
stationed at, 69. 

Eaton, Robert, mason, 157. 

Eddiston, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 

Edinton, William, driver, 114. 

Edmund, Ned, negro laborer, 141. 

Edwards, David, carpenter, 156. 

Edwards, Richard, laborer, 125. 

Egbert, Anthony, carpenter, 148. 

Eitell, Lt.-Col., Hans H., men- 
tioned, 107. 

Eitell, Lt.-Col., Henry, mentioned, 
32. 

Eldrid, Samuel, master, 65, 164. 

Eldridge, Titus, driver, 184. 

FAk, sloop, 164. 

Ellens, Alexander, carpenter, 191. 

Elliot, Lt.-Gov., Andrew, men- 
tioned, 92. 

EUiott, Andrew, appointed member 
of the Board, 3; attends meeting, 
3, 4 58, 60, 70, 80, 105, 194, 195, 
196, 255. 

Elliott, Thomas, master, 160. 

Elms, Alexander, carpenter, 52. 

Elvine, George, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Elvine, Thomas, batteauxman, 166. 

Elwerd, John, sawyer, 149. 

Emmerick, Lt.-Col., mentioned, 91. 

Engle, Samuel, conductor, 54. 

Engineer's Department, compara- 
tive view of expenses of the, 8, 10, 
12, 24, 25; cost of maintenance 
for one year, 22, 23; list of vessels 
employed in the, 28, 29; men- 
tioned, 36, 58, 76, 93, 182, 184, 
225, 233, 256; comparative view 
to purchase or hire vessels, horses 
and wagons in the, 38, 40, 42; let- 
ter concerning the, 60, 61, 205, 



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206; letter to the, 80; number of 
men, women and children in the, 
victualled at New York, 86, 89; 
muster roll of artificers, sawyers, 
etc., employed in the, 146-157. 

English, Joseph, foreman, 146. 

Erbeck, Conradt, driver, 178. 

Erskine, Sir William, mentioned, 6, 
8, 10, 72, 75, 76, 223, 227, 228, 
229. 

Erwine, Francis, conductor, 55. 

Escape, schooner, 29, 46, 66, 158, 
238, 239. 

Esting, Nicholas, carpenter, 149. 

Evans, Reuben, laborer, 134. 

Fair, King, driver, 112. 

Falmouth, orison ship, 26, 46, 66, 

160. 
Faney, Richard, sawyer, 157. 
Farish, Greggs, assistant, 126. 
Farmer, Jupiter, negro laborer, 

142. 
Fambach, Nicholas, driver, 108. 
Farrell, John, driver, 120. 
Farrell, John, laborer, 124. 
Farrier, Thomas, driver, 172. 
Farriss, James, laborer, 148. 
Farrington, Mathew, laborer, 138. 
Faulk, John, laborer, 122. 
Featch, Caleb, cartman, 141. 
Fenner, Conrad, driver, 104. 
Ferguson, Charles, blacksmith, 53, 

110. 
Ferguson, James, sawyer, 149. 
Ferguson, John, sawyer, 157. 
Ferguson, Patrick, cooper, 122. 
Fernand, Peter, master, 69, 160. 
Ferries, Inspector of, mentioned, 16, 

199. 
Ferrill, John, laborer, 57. 
Ferris, William, negro laborer, 141. 
Field Forges, mentioned, 32, 36. 
Finland, John, cartman, 141. 
Finn, WUUam, driver, 184. 
Finney, David, laborer, 123. 
Fish, WilUam, carpenter, 148. 
Fisher, Henry, carpenter, 182. 
Fiaher, Philip, driver, 106. 
Fitzpatrick, John, carpenter, 153. 
Fleet, Pompy, negro laborer, 142. 
Fleming, Patrick, laborer, 123. 
Florey, John, driver, 106. 
Flushing, L. I., cost of wood at, 102. 
Flushing, L. I., muster roll of Com- 

missarv General's Department at, 

138, 139. 
Flynn, Walter, carpenter, 125. 
Folsonberg, John, driver, 186. 



Forage Office, list of vessels con- 
nected with the, 25. 

Forage Department, number of per- 
sons in the, victualled at New 
York, 86. 

Forage Office, mentioned, 18, 40. 

Forges, mentioned, 32, 36. 

Ford, Joseph, laborer, 56. 

Ford, Wilham, blacksmith, 53, 111. 

Ford ell, John, carpenter, 150. 

Foreman, Corporal, 176. 

Forest, Edward, driver, 186. 

Formidable, sloop, 47, 48. 

Forsythe, Cato, driver, 184. 

Foster, James, assistant, 126. 

Foster, Stephen, carpenter, 156. 

Foster, William, conductor, 55. 

Fosters, James, negro laborer, 126. 

Ft. Knyphausen, N. Y. C, wagon 
yard near, 96; mentioned, 98; mus- 
ter roll of artificers, sawyers, etc., 
employed in the Engineer's De- 
partment at, 154; return of wagon 
masters, conductors, etc., em- 
ployed in the Quartermaster 
General's Department at, 182- 
189. _ 

Fountain, Tom, negro laborer, 141. 

Fowler, Harry, negro laborer, 141. 

Fowler, Martin, cartman, 140. 

Fox, John, blacksmith, 52. 

Fox, John, foreman, blacksmith, 1 10. 

Fox, Joseph, master blacksmith, 52, 
191. 

Franklin, Gov., mentioned, 92. 

Eraser, John, laborer, 56. 

Fraser, Maj., mentioned, 93. 

Fraser, William, carpenter, 151. 

Fraser, William, sawyer, 149. 

Frazer, John, driver, 118. 

Frederick, Anton, driver, 106. 

Fredler, Henrich, driver, 106. 

Freebody, Mr., conductor, 143. 

Freelove, sloop, 28. 

Freeman, Benjamin, carpenter, 149. 

Free Mason, schooner, 29, 64, 95, 
164, 196. 

Frehgh, John, driver, 174. 

French, James, conductor, 54. 

French, James, laborer, 126. 

Fresh Meadows, L. I., forage de- 
partment at, 138, 139. 

Friday, Paul, cartman, 140. 

Fridell, Abraham, storekeeper, 109. 

Fn'ends, schooner, 29, 64, 95, 164, 
196. 

Friendship, schooner, 26. 

Friendship, sloop, 28, 64, 94, 164, 
195. 



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Fritts, Titus, blacksmith, 53. 

Fritz, John, driver, 118. 

Fuel and Supplies, letter concerning, 

97-103. 
Fullerton, Archibald, foreman, 148. 
Fulling, Conradt, driver, 178. 
Fyers, Lieut.-Engineer, 205. 

Gaberling, Peter, driver, 186. 
Gabriel, John, driver, 104. 
Gage, Philip, carpenter, 150. 
Gale, Joseph, conductor, 55. 
Gallahan, Peter, driver, 182. 
Galton, George, master, 48. 
Gandelach, George, driver, 104. 
Gardner, Mr., master, 65, 164. 
Gardner, Joseph, Acting Comm'y of 

Musters, 131, 171, 181, 189. 
Gardner, Joseph, Quarter Master, 

145, 155. 
Gardner, William, carpenter, 152. 
Gargison, Peter, laborer. 132. 
Garrison Battalion, mentioned, 32. 
Gasken, David, driver, 186. 
Gaskin, John, 176. 
Gearbrants, Peter, foreman, 152. 
Geister, John, driver, 174. 
General Brutus, negro laborer, 141 . 
General Phillips, schooner, 29. 
General Reidesel, ship, 27, 46, 66, 

158. 
Generous Friends, sloop, 64, 94, 166, 

195. 
George, negro laborer, 122. 
George, Peter, driver, 112. 
George, schooner, 29. 
Georgia, cost of provisions for use of 

British Army in, 84. 
Gerlach, Hcnrick, driver, 180. 
Gerod, Jacob, carpenter, 140. 
Gerrard, William, driver, 174. 
Gerring, Abraham, carpenter, 153. 
Gibbeny, James, carpenter, 149. 
Gibbons, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 
Gibson, Andrew, mason, 147. 
Gidnej', Isaac, carpenter, 140. 
Gigg, sloop, 26, 46, 66, 158. 
Gilbert, Serjeant, 176. 
Gilchrist, Alexander, driver, 172. 
Gilfillan, J., As.'jistant Deput}^ Quar- 
ter Master General, 190, 191, 193, 

194. 
Gilmore, Alexander, laborer, 124. 
Gilmore, Andrew, driver, 145. 
Gilmore, Anthonj', laborer, 56. 
Ginnings, Samuel, carpenter, 149. 
Gleaces, WiUiam, carpenter, 121. 
Glenn, Hugh, carpenter, 146. 
Glenn, Will, negro laborer, 141. 



Glentworth, Thomas, master, 47, 67, 
160. 

Goddard, Job, mate, 146. 

Goddard, John, carpenter, 140. 

Goddart, Dariet, carpenter, 140. 

Goddin, Ned, negro laborer, 141. 

Godwin, Jupiter, driver, 192. 

Gold, John T., driver, 184. 

Goldin, John, carpenter, 52, 110. 

Goldsmfth, Stephen, carpenter, 51, 
191. 

Gomez, John, carpenter, 51, 150. 

Goodman, William, driver, 116. 

Goodman, Joseph, laborer, 123. 

Gordon, Charles, driver. 174. 

Gordon, Mr., mentioned, 92. 

Gosen, Maj.-Gen., Uphraim Von, 
mentioned, 32, 89, 186. 

GosUng, James, laborer, 132. 

Gould, Caesar, negro laborer, 141. 

Governor Provost, sloop, 28. 

Covers, James, carpenter, 140. 

Graff, John, driver, 106. 

Graff, Lt.-Col. William, mentioned, 
34, 181. 

Graham, Eneas, cooper, 122. 

Graham, Francis, carpenter, 52. 

Graham, Henry, carpenter, 155. 

Graham, Robert, cartman, 140. 

Graham, Wilham, 176. 

Grain Magazine, N. Y. City, men- 
tioned, 131. 

Graling, Henry, driver, 106. 

Granger, John, conductor, 55, 108. 

Grant, Alexander, driver, 192. 

Grant, Daniel, driver, 144. 

Grant, Duncan, overseer, 55. 

Grant, James, carpenter, 121. 

Grant, Michael, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Grant, Peter, driver, 144. 

Grant, Samuel, conductor, 54, 182. 

Graves, Mathew, sawyer, 149. 

Gray, John, sawyer, 154. 

Green, John, cartman, 140. 

Green, John, driver, 118. 

Green, Robert, driver, 174. 

Green, WUliam, laborer, 148. 

Greenwood, John, laborer, 124. 

Greyhound, schooner, 26, 68, 162. 

Griess, Johannes, driver, 186. 

Griffin, William, master, 47. 

Groskurl. Daniel, driver. 106. 

Grosman, Ernest, driver, 174. 

Groues, George, driver, 186. 

Grovestine, Conrad, sawj^er, 153. 

Grumbly, James, laborer, 126. 

Grundman, Johannes, driver, 178. 

Guffy, James, conductor, 55. 

Guides and Pioneers, mentioned, 32. 



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Guignard, Nicholas, master, 69, 162. 
Gunderlach, John, driver, 104. 
Gunn, George, assistant, 142. 
Gunn, George, mate, 145. 
Gunner, Lambert, laborer, 142. 
Gunter, Andrew, carpenter, 157. 
Gunter, Conrad, carpenter, 153. 
Gurthell, Joh. Jost, driver, 186. 
Gurty, Thomas, carpenter, 152. 

Haber, John, driver, 180. 
Hackenbure, Maj.-Gen., Frederick 

v., mentfoned, 32, 89, 105. 
Hagathee, John, laborer, 124. 
Halifax, N. S., mentioned, 8, 10, 71, 

74, 81, 97, 226. 
Hall, David, laborer, 57. 
Hallett, Jeremiah, driver, 192. 
Hallett, Jeremiah, laborer, 56. 
Hallett"s Cove, L. I., mentioned, 

126, 208. 
Hallum, Richard, driver, 114. 
Ham, John, batteauxman, 167. 
Hamilton, Col., mentioned, 92. 
Hamilton, William, driver, 172. 
Hammill, Daniel, conductor, 54, 

108. 
Handy, Rufus, ship carpenter, 50, 

176. 
Hanger, Major, George, mentioned, 

92. 
Hannah, William, master carpenter, 

50, 190. 
Hanover, John, driver, 114. 
Hanselbaker, William, laborer, 131. 
Hansen, Christopher, carpenter, 

140. 
Happy Couple, sloop, 28, 64, 94, 146, 

164, 195. 
Harding, Capt., mentioned, 103. 
Harlem, N. Y. City, mentioned, 47, 

94, 95, 195, 196, 207, 208. 
Harlem Heights, N. Y. City, muster 

roll of artificers, laborers, etc., 

employed at, 128-130. 
Harlem Heights, wagon hire at, 18. 
Harlequin, sloop, 26, 46, 66, 160, 

162. 
Harman, -Jacob, driver, 174. 
Harmony, Nicholas, wagoner, 144. 
Hamessmakers, list of, 53, 111. 
Harp, George, carpenter, 50. 
Harriet, sloop, 29. 
Harring, Wally, driver, 192. 
Harriott, Nathaniel, foreman, 147. 
Harris, Samuel, batteauxman, 166. 
Harrison, Christopher, carpenter, 

155. 
Harry, negro laborer, 124. 



Hartlys, John, driver, 172. 
Hartmen, John, driver, 188. 
Hartung, Christian, driver, 174. 
Harvey, Ephraim, master, 47, 67, 

158. 
Harvey, John, driver, 118. 
Hasseihuyn, Christoph, driver, 

108. 
Haubauld, Christopher, driver, 106. 
Hawkins, William, driver, 118. 
Hawthorn, Thomas, driver, 186. 
Hay, Henry, carpenter, 110. 
Hay Magazine, N. Y. City, men- 
tioned, 131, 135, 136. 
Hayes, Henry, conductor, 54. 
Hays, Jeremiah, blacksmith, 52, 

191. 
Haj-s, Joseph, carpenter, 125. 
Hayse, Rheinbard, driver, 174. 
Head, Benjamin, mason, 147. 
Heard, John, stacker, 134. 
Hedges, Isaac, laborer, 123. 
Heffeman, Richard, laborer, 130. 
Heintell, Jacob, driver, 174. 
Heirman, Adam, driver, 144. 
Hellman, Frederick, cartman, 140. 
Hellwig, Henry, driver, 180. 
Hemain, George, carpenter, 125. 
Heman, Martin, laborer, 123. 
Hemion, Henry, laborer, 131. 
Hempstead, L. I., 49, 129, 
Henderson, James, conductor, 54. 
Henderson, James, smith, 147. 
Henderson, William, carpenter, 147. 
Henning, Claude, laborer, 57. 
Henning, John, driver, 106. 
Henry, George, driver, 145. 
Henry, John, 177. 
Henry, John, driver, 116. 
Henry, Robert, 176. 
Henry, Thomas, carpenter, 140. 
Henry, William, carpenter, 153. 
Herb, Henry, driver, 112. 
Her cuius, sloop, 26. 
Hem, WiUiam, laborer, 123. 
Heron, Andrew, foreman 155. 
Hesse, John Jost, driver, 106. 
Hessian Hospital, mentioned, 32, 

90, 109. 
Hessian Regiments: 

Anhalt, Zerbst, 88. 

Anspach, 36, 92, 175. 

Anspach Yagers, 36, 87, 188. 

ArtiUery, 87, 91, 186, 188. 

Brunswick, 87, 207. 

Bunau, 34, 87, 91, 107. 

Chasseurs, 87. 

Combined Battalion, 87, 92, 109. 

Donop, 34, 87, 91, 186. 



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Du Corps, 34. 87, 91, 107. 
Grenadiers, 34, 87, 91, 179, 181. 
Hanau Volunteers, 87. 
Hussars, 36. 
Jagers, 73, 87, 91, 188. 
Landgrave, 34, 87, 91, 107. 
Losberg, 87, 91. 
Loeberg, Jr., 34, 186. 
Mirbach, 34. 

Prince Charles, 34, 87, 91, 107. 
Prince Heredity, 34, 175. 
Waldeck, 87, 92. 

Hessians, return of drivers, horses 
and wagons attached to the Staff 
and Corps at New York, 104-109; 
mentioned, 32. 

Hewertson, Capt. B., Town Major, 
mentioned, 90. 

Heust, John, sawyer, 153. 

Hews, Owen, carpenter, 150. 

Hickey, John, sawyer, 51, 177. 

Hill, Christoph, driver, 108. 

Hill, Mr., engineer, 188. 

HUl, Samuel, driver, 144. 

Hinton, William, di'iver, 116. 

Hinxman, Charles, laborer, 131. 

Hitchcock, Joseph, carpenter, 155. 

Hockaday, Thomas, driver, 114. 

Hoebrick, Prince, negro laborer, 141. 

Hollingsworth, Jehu, conductor, 54, 
190. 

Hollinsbv, Richard, carpenter, 52, 
182. 

Holloway, Richard, cartman, 140. 

Holmes, William, carpenter, 152. 

Holtz, Christopher, driver, 186. 

Homes, WiUiam, laborer, 122. 

Horafray, Samuel, laborer, 134. 

Honesty, George, driver, 116. 

Hope, schooner, 28, 64, 95, 164, 196. 

Horn, Johannes, driver, 178. 

Hornett, Nathaniel, carpenter, 149. 

Horns Hook, N. Y. City, muster 
roll of artificers, sawyers, etc., 
employed in the Engineer's De- 
partment at, 152-154. 

Horn wist, James, driver, 118. 

Horses, number of, in the Quarter- 
master General's Department, 
that have died from 1779-1781, 
247. 

Horses, return of, foraged at New 
York, 89-93; estimate of the ex- 
pense of 100 horses for one year, 
93; comparative view to purchase 
or hire, for the British Army, 199- 
201; cost of, 212; number of, 
employed in the Quartermaster 
General's Department, 226. 



Horton, Nathaniel, master, 48. 

Hosliter, Armond, mason, 157. 

Hospital for the Armv and Navy, 
mentioned, 30, 76, 90. 

Hospitals, number of men, women 
and children connected with, 
victualled at New York, 86, 88. 

Houseman, Frederick, laborer, 141. 

Houseman, John, foreman, 155. 

Houseman, John, Jr., foreman, 155. 

Howard, Jacob, blacksmith, 53, 111. 

Howard, John, blacksmith, 53, 111. 

Howard, John, carpenter, 140. 

Howe, sloop, armed, 24, 68, 162. 

Howe, Sir William, mentioned, 6, 
12, 13, 15, 71, 72, 73, 97, 101, 198, 
224, 226, 228, 255, 256. 

Howell, James, carpenter, 148. 

Howell, Phineas, carpenter, 147. 

Howland, John, master, 162. 

Howser, Jacob, laborer, 141. 

Hugh, Hugh, conductor, 54, 108. 

Hughes, Robert, driver, 144. 

Hull, Jonas, driver, 186. 

Humplirevs, James, blacksmith, 53, 
191. 

Humphrys, Walter, assistant com- 
missary of forage, 136, 137. 

Hunt, John, driver, 172. 

Hunter, John, driver, 114. 

Huntington, L. I., mentioned, 49, 
230. 

Hupfeld, Johannis, driver, 106. 

Hurter, John, sawyer, 154. 

Hutchins, Jonathan, master, 69, 
162. 

Hutchins, Samuel, carpenter, 154. 

Hutchinson, John, driver, 114. 

Hutchinson, Marmaduke, carpen- 
ter, 150. 

Hutchison, William, sawyer, 150. 

Hutts, Harman, driver, 144. 

Hyde, John, driver, 172. 

Hyer, Nicholas, driver, 184. 

Industry, sloop, 25, 68, 164. 

Ingle, Samuel, carpenter, 110. 

Inghs, Robert, driver, 172. 

Inkister, WiUiam, master, 69, 162. 

Innis, Alexander, master, 69, 162. 

Innis, Henry, master, 69, 162. 

Inspector General's Department, 
mentioned, 90. 

Inspector General of Stores, men- 
tioned, 32, 102. 

Inspectors Department, number of 
persons in the, victualled at New 
York, 86. 

Ireland, Robert, smith, 147. 



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271 



Iron, for horse shoes ; cost of annual- 
ly, 214. 
Irvine, Daniel, carpenter, 154. 
Irvine, Richard, carpenter, 153. 
Irving, James, batteauxman, 167. 
Isaac, negro laborer, 134, 13(3, 139. 

Jack, negro driver, 118. 

Jack, negro laborer, 136, 139. 

Jack, Jordan, negro laborer, 141. 

Jacks, Hany, negro laborer, 141. 

Jackson, negro laborer, 142. 

Jackson, James, driver, 182. 

Jackson, John, laborer, 124, 126. 

Jacob, laborer, 125. 

Jacocks, William, sawyer, 156. 

Jamaica, L. I., cost of wood at, 102; 
mentioned, 96, 128, 168. 

Jamaica, L. I., muster roll of forage 
magazine at, 138, 139; muster roll 
of the Barrack Master General's 
Department at, 142. 

James, Cato, laborer, 134. 

James, Thomas, laborer, 148. 

Jarvis, John, assistant, 138, 139. 

Jarvis, William, laborer, 124. 

Jeckell, John, driver, 108. 

Jefferson, George, master, 65, 145, 
164. 

Jenkins, Charles, driver, 120. 

Jenkins, Charles, laborer, 57. 

Jenkins, John, carpenter, 150. 

Jennings, Thomas, master black- 
smith, 51, 176. 

Jennings, William, laborer, 124. 

Jerry, negro laborer, 125. 

John, negro laborer, 139. 

John, sloop, 26, 44, 66, 158. 

Johnson, Charles, sawyer, 156. 

Johnson, George, carpenter, 51, 190. 

Johnson, James, carpenter, 149. 

Johnson, James G., assistant, 128. 

Johnson, Mathias, laborer, 138. 

Johnson, Peter, driver, 184, 192. 

Johnson, Roger, Assistant Commis- 
sary General, 129. 

Johnston, John, master, 69, 162. 

Johnston, Thomas, laborer, 124, 131. 

Johnston, William, master, 65, 145, 
164. 

Joiners, list of, 51, 177. 

Jones, Charles, driver, 174. 

Jones, David, carpenter, 110. 

Jones, David, harnessmaker, 53, 
111. 

Jones, Henry, conductor, 54, 190. 

Jones, James, conductor, 55. 

Jones, Jonathan, blacksmith, 52, 
191. 



Jones, Peter, driver, 184. 
Jones, Smith, carpenter, 151. 
Jones, Thomas, laborer, 139. 
Jones, Wilham, laborer, 143. 
Jordan, Sipp, blacksmith, 53. 
Jordon, James, laborer, 122. 
Jordon, Michael, laborer, 123. 
Joseph, brig, 27. 
Judge Advocate, mentioned, 90. 
Junger, Henry, driver, 186. 
Jupiter, sloop, 27, 46, 66, 158. 

Kam, Caesar, laborer, 134. 

Katzman, Casper, driver, 186. 

Kebig, George, driver, 106. 

Keene, John, smith, 148. 

Keiche, Conradt, driver, 106. 

Keith, Archibald, carpenter, 147. 

Keith, James, sawyer, 153. 

Kellj', John, carpenter, 120. 

Kennedv, Wilham, driver, 112. 

Kent, ship, 24, 68, 162. 

Kerath, Casper, driver, 174. 

Kerr, Thomas, carpenter, 153. 

Kethune, Jehiel, carpenter, 155. 

Kevand, Alexander, sawyer, 156. 

Key, Wilham, di-iver, 186. 

Ivickner, Carl, driver, 188. 

Kiddy, William, driver, 116. 

Kieting, Daniel, carpenter, 140. 

Kilegroor, John, carpenter, 140. 

Kilso, Wilham, laborer, 132. 

Iving, Daniel, negro laborer, 142. 

Iving, John, carpenter, 52. 

King, John, seaman, 146. 

King, Orick, laborer, 123. 

Kingsbridge, N. Y. C, road to, 96; 
mentioned, 168, 205, 218, 225, 
251. 

Kingsland, Cornehus, carpenter, 
120. 

Kingsland, John, laborer, 132. 

Kingsland, William, carpenter, 152. 

Bang's Ship Yards, mentioned, 36. 

Kinkade, Andrew, driver, 116. 

Ivirby, Lewis, driver, 180. 

Kirk, Francis, master, 65, 146, 
164. 

Kitty, sloop, 26. 

Ivn3rphausen, Gen. WilUam, men- 
tioned, 32, 89, 105, 206. 

KoUe, Henrick, driver, 180. 

Kopky, Gothel, driver, 174. 

Kospoth, Maj.-Gen. Jul. V., men- 
tioned, 32, 89, 105. 

Krim, John, driver, 188. 

Krug, Justus, driver, 106. 

Kulpt, John, laborer, 141. 

Kurydorffer, John, driver, 174. 



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INDEX 



Laborers, mentioned, 14, 17, 18, 20, 
22, 81, 88, 95, 199; Ust of, 55-57, 
111, 122-125, 126-144, 148, 154, 
194. 

Laderick, Michael, laborer, 123. 

Ladrue, Herman, foreman, 146. 

Lady Howe, schooner, 28. 

Lafforts, Gilbert, laborer, 57. 

Lagra, Peter, driver, 184. 

Lagrue, Tom, negro laborer, 141. 

Laight, William, mason, 147. 

Laizer, Jacob, driver, 144. 

Lamaeter, John D., carpenter, 140. 

Lambuson, Jacob, laborer, 194. 

Land, Able, carpenter, 152. 

Lands, Lewis, laborer. 194. 

Lang, James, carpenter, 147. 

Langrange, Tom, laborer, 134. 

Langsbraith, Peter, laborer, 125. 

Lantaback, Albruck, driver, 174. 

Lapiving, schooner, 27. 

Largeley, John, sawyer, 149. 

Larmont, John, driver, 174. 

Larnerson, Jacob, laborer, 57. 

Lashere, Peter, laborer, 132. 

Lashore, John, cooper, 130. 

Lasson, John, sawyer, 150. 

Latham, Simon, ship carpenter, 176, 

Lattitt, Mr., master, 67. 

Laut, John, driver, 188. 

Lauterback, Albruck, driver, 174. 

Laverage, John, laborer, 122. 

Laverge, Abraham, laborer, 123. 

Lawrence, Jonathan, ship carpenter. 
50, 176. 

Lawson, Abraham, carpenter, 156. 

Lawson, Isaac, carpenter, 150. 

Lawson, James, carpenter, 155. 

Lawson, Peter, carpenter, 155. 

Laycock, John, foreman, 150. 

Leach, John, carpenter, 110. 

Leacher, Wilham, seaman. 145. 

Leader, Thomas, laborer, 132. 

Leary, Michael, laborer, 130. 

Leatch, John, carpenter, 52. 

Leight, George, driver, 178. 

Leland, Brig.-Gen. John, mentioned, 
28. 

Lengerke, Lt.-Col. George E. von, 
mentioned, 34, 179. 

Leonard, Andrew, sawyer, 153. 

Leonard, Enoch, carpenter, 154. 

Leonard, John, carpenter, 120. 

Leonard, John, laborer, 138. 

Leslie, Alexander, carpenter, 128. 

Ijesly, Mingo, laborer, 57. 

Lew, negro laborer, 139. 

Lewis, John, carpenter, 153, 155. 

Lewis, negro laborer, 137. 



Lewis, Reuben, laborer, 57. 

Lewy, negro laborer, 128. 

Light House, mentioned, 32. 

Lillick, Samuel, laborer, 123. 

Lilly, James, master, 69. 

Lincoln, Earl of, appointed member 
of the Board, 3; attends meeting, 
60, 70, 80, 104, 105, 157, 194, 195, 
196; mentioned, 90. 

Lindsay, Ninian, carpenter, 152. 

Linsing, Lt.-Col. WilUam de, men- 
tioned, 34, 179. 

Lintner, John, laborer, 141. 

Littlewood, James, conductor, 55. 

Littman, Thomas, driver, 172. 

Liverpool, negro laborer, 139. 

LiviUy, John, carpenter, 150. 

Livingston, Allen, carpenter, 156. 

Livingston, George, negro laborer, 
141. 

Lloyd, Samuel, carpenter, 152. 

Lloyd, Walter, driver, 170. 

Lloyd's Neck, L. I., muster roll of 
the Barrack Master General's 
Department at, 143-144; muster 
roll of vessels of the Barrack Mas- 
ter General's Department at, 145; 
mentioned, 94, 95, 96, 99, 128, 
195. 

Llynn, Barnett, carpenter, 152. 

Loewenstein, Lt.-Col. William von, 
mentioned, 34, 179. 

Logan, John, driver, 118. 

Logan, Robert, driver, 118. 

Long, James, driver, 184. 

Long, James, wagoner, 144. 

Long Island, cart hire on, 20; men- 
tioned, 20, 97, 98, 142; muster roll 
of assistants, overseers, coopers, 
etc., at the provision magazines 
on, 126-129. 

Long Island, muster roll of the Com- 
missary's Department on, 126- 
129; mentioned, 95, 160. 

Loose, John, carpenter, 156. 

Lord, George, carpenter, 150. 

Lord Howe, schooner, 28. 

Loring, Joshua, Commissary Gen- 
eral of prisoners, mentioned, 90. 

Lorton, Lewis, carpenter, 120. 

Lorton, William, carpenter, 120. 

Losberg, Maj.-Gen. Frederick W., 
mentioned, 32, 89, 184. 

Loshe, Peter, laborer, 130. 

Louzada Jacob, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Lovell, Joseph, laborer, 55. 

Lowrey, Prince, laborer, 134. 

Lowrey, WiUiam, foreman, 155. 

Lowry, Robert, conductor, 55. 



INDEX 



273 



Lucy, sloop, 26, 46. 
Lurcher, brig, 27, 48. 
Lutkins, Henderick, mason, 125. 
Lutkins, John, driver, 112. 
Lutkins, John, laborer, 125. 
Luttill, Mr., master, 45, 67, 158. 
Lynch, John, conductor, 54. 
Lyon, Charles, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Mabee, Cornelius, carpenter, 157. 
McAllister, Robert, conductor, 54. 
McAlpine, Daniel, carpenter, 156. 
McAlpine, John, carpenter, 155. 
McArath, James, laborer, 124. 
McCall, Duncan, carpenter, 156. 
McCann, Michael, laborer, 122. 
McClasky, Michael, driver, 192. 
McClintock, Alexander, laborer, 

154. 
McCollom, John, carpenter, 148. 
McCord, Joseph, 177. 
McCormick, Neal, driver, 174. 
McCormick, Samuel, sawyer, 51, 

177. 
McCormick, Thomas, driver, 172. 
McCuUoch, John, driver, 186. 
McCurty, Josiah, carpenter, 152. 
McDermitt, Dennis, laborer, 194. 
McDonald, Alexander, cartman, 

140. 
McDonald, Alexander, driver, 172. 
McDonald, John, laborer, 123. 
McDonald, WilHara, laborer, 128. 
McDowell, Hugh, driver, 118. 
McDowell, Thomas, batteauxman, 

166. 
McEchran, Duncan, foreman, 147. 
McFadden, John, 177. 
MacFall, Joseph, assistant, 140. 
McFaxlin, Alexander, driver, 172. 
McFee, John, laborer, 138. 
McGear, John, laborer, 123. 
McGill, Michael, laborer, 56. 
McGinnis, Richard, carpenter, 152. 
McGowan, John, carpenter, 157, 

190. 
McGowen, John, carpenter, 50. 
McGowen, John, Jr., carpenter, 51, 

191. 
McGraw, Daniel, laborer, 148. 
McGregor, Alexander, laborer, 132. 
McGregor, Andrew, driver, 188. 
McGwillam, Robert, cooper, 122. 
Mcintosh, Alexander, driver, 136. 
Mcintosh, Mr., laborer, 125. 
Mcintosh, Robert, driver, 172. 
Mcintosh, WiUiam, laborer, 55. 
McKay, Alexander, driver, 170. 
McKenna, John, carpenter 52, 182. 



McKenna, John, laborer, 57. 

McKenney, Gilbert, sawyer, 177. 

McKenney, John, driver, 120. 

McKenzie, Alexander, driver, 114. 

McKenzie, Hector, driver, 170. 

McKenzie, Murdock, laborer, 125. 

McKenzie, William, carpenter, 154. 

Mclvie, Thomas, laborer, 128. 

McKill, Thomas, laborer, 134. 

McKindray, Edward, carpenter, 151. 

McKinley, John, carpenter, 50, 190. 

Mclvinney, William, laborer, 132. 

McKinny, Gilbert, sawyer, 51. 

McKinzie, Cornehus, laborer, 134. 

McKinzie, Hector, laborer, 132. 

McKoy, Daniel, driver, 114. 

McKoy, Henry, driver, 114. 

McKoy, John, batteauxman, 166. 

McKoy, John, sawyer, 149. 

McKoy, William, carpenter, 156. 

McLachlan, John, laborer, 123. 

McLashie, Donald, driver, 170. 

McLean, William, driver, 144. 

McLelland, Donald, laborer, 143, 
194. 

McLelland, John, laborer, 56, 194. 

McLeod, Donald, driver, 114. 

McLeod, John, batteauxman, 167. 

McLeod, Murdock, driver, 114. 

McLeod, William, carpenter, 52, 110. 

McLoughlin, John, driver, 172. 

McManus, Thomas, conductor, 55, 
108. 

McMaster, John, wagoner, 144. 

McMinn, John, cooper, 122. 

McMurdy, Henry, laborer, 129. 

McMutry, Andrew, driver, 172. 

McNeil, Archibald, acting Quarter 
Master, 148. 

McPherson, John, driver, 172. 

McPherson, Paul, laborer, 194. 

McSparren, Isaac, stacker, 132. 

McWharton, Peter, mason, 147. 

Maffett, William, overseer, 126. 

Mahony, John, carpenter, 152. 

Majoera, John, driver, 174. 

Malone, Thomas, carpenter, 156. 

Manual, Thomas, sawyer, 154. 

Margeson, Frederick, laborer, 122. 

Maria, sloop, 27, 48. 

Marpole, Richard, 112. 

Marr, John, collarmaker, 191. 

Marr, John, harnessmaker, 53. 

Marsh, Joseph, master, 69, 164. 

Marsh, Samuel, master, 69, 162. 

Marshall, Wilham, Capt., men- 
tioned, 157. 

Marston's Wharf, mentioned, 129, 
130. 



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Martin, Hugh, laborer, 128. 

Martin, John, carpenter, 51. 

Martin, Joseph, foreman carpenter, 
110. 

Martin, Josiah, carpenter, 52. 

Martin, Renyon, carpenter, 156. 

Mary, schooner, 29, 64, 95, 164, 196. 

Mary, sloop, 27, 28, 46, 66, 158. 

Mary Ann, sloop, 27, 46, 160. 

Mary Anne, brig, 26, 44, 66, 158. 

Mascall, Peter, driver, 172. 

Maeler, George, driver, 180. 

Masons, mentioned, 20, 22; list of, 
125, 147, 157. 

Massett, Jacob, driver, 178. 

Masters, wages of, 238-241. 

Mates, wages of, 238-241. 

Matthews, David, Mayor of New 
York, mentioned, 92. 

Mawby, Jacob, carpenter, 150. 

Maxwell, Charles, carpenter, 52. 

Maxwell, John, batteauxman, 167. 

May, William, master, 65, 145, 166. 

May Flower, schooner, 27. 

Mayor, The, mentioned, 92. 

Melvin, Mathew, cooper, 121. 

Melvin, Peter, carpenter, 152. 

Mercer, Capt., Alexander, Com- 
manding Engineer, 151, 152, 155; 
mentioned, 10, 81; letter of, 60, 
61, 205, 206, 237; muster roll of 
men under his direction, 146-157; 
letter to, 233. 

Mercury, schooner, 27, 48. 

Merigon, Martin, smith, 147. 

Messer, Edward, laborer, 134. 

Metzner, Capt. F., mentioned, 90. 

Middleton, Thomas, mason, 147. 

Miles, Thomas, laborer, 132. 

Millegan, John, sawyer, 153. 

Millen, John, driver^ 182. 

Miller, Abraham, driver, 116. 

Miller, Ceasar, wagoner, 126. 

Miller, Henry, sawyer, 149. 

Miller, Jacob, laborer, 124. 

Miller, John, cooper, 126. 

Miller, John, driver, 151. 

Miller, Joseph, laborer, 125. 

Miller, Lieut., mentioned, 91. 

Miller, Robert, driver, 144. 

Milligan, Samuel, carpenter, 153. 

Milliner, Titus, negro laborer, 141. 

Milton, Henry, driver, 184. 

Minifee, Richard, laborer, 122. 

Minton, Thomas, driver, 170. 

Mintus, Adam, driver, 116. 

Mitchel, James, driver, 114. 

Mitchel, John, laborer, 142. 

Moarerly, Edward, driver, 144. 



Mohawk, sbop, 28, 64, 95, 164, 196. 

Mohr, David, driver, 108. 

Mohr, John, driver, 108. 

Moller, Adam, driver, 106. 

Moller, Philip, driver, 188. 

Mollholland, Roger, carpenter, 152. 

Molloy, James, clerk, 54. 

Molloy, James, storekeeper, 109. 

Moncrieff, William, conductor, 54, 
108. 

Moncrieffe, Thomas, mentioned, 90. 

Monday, Ishmeal, driver, 172. 

Monder, John, driver, 112. 

Monier, John, laborer, 134. 

Montcrief, William, conductor, 54, 
108. 

Monro, negro laborer, 136. 

Montressor, Capt., James, men- 
tioned, 8; Major, 10. 

Moore, Bartholmew, sawj-er, 154. 

Moore, Caeser, laborer, 56. 

Moore, Edward, driver, 116. 

Moore, Francis, carpenter, 52, 191. 

Moore, James, assistant, 143. 

Moore, James, laborer, 132. 

Moore, Jeremiah, cartman, 140. 

Moore, John, carpenter, 155. 

Moore, Stephen, wagoner, 144. 

Moore, William, carpenter, 155. 

More, Richard, driver, 116. 

Morewise, Daniel, cartman, 140. 

Morfitt, James, conductor, 182. 

Morgan, Isaac, driver, 114. 

Morgan, John, driver, 104. 

Morgann, Maurice, Secretary to the 
Commander-in-Chief, mentioned, 
90. 

Morris, Lutheran, carpenter, 157. 

Morris, Sam, negro laborer, 141. 

Morris, William, driver, 112. 

Morrissinia, N. Y., mentioned, 225. 

Morrison, Alexander, master, 45, 67, 
158. 

Morrison, Edward, laborer, 122. 

Morsett, James, conductor, 55. 

Mosely, Benjamin, carpenter, 156. 

Mosely, George, sawyer, 156. 

Mosely, George, Jr., carpenter, 156. 

Mount, Richard, cartman, 140. 

Mowatt, Quash, seaman, 146. 

Muldoon, John, laborer, 122. 

Mullan, Henry, batteauxman, 166. 

Mullen, Henry, laborer, 132. 

Muller, John,'^driver, 182. 

Murchee, William, laborer, 122. 

Murphy, Henry, sawyer, 156. 

Murphy, Hyram, 176. 

Murphy, Jolm, driver, 188. 

Murphy, Thomas, laborer, 123. 



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275 



Murray, Isaac, laborer, 56. 
Murray, William, master, 47, 67, 

160. 
Muster Master, mentioned, 87, 90. 
Mute, Jacob, driver, 116. 
Myers, Jack, laborer, 130. 
Myers, Jacob, sawyer, 154. 
Myers, James, driver, 112. 
Myers, Jeremiah, carpenter, 149. 
Myers, Richard, driver, 112. 

Nairn, Robert, batteauxman, 166. 

Nancy, sloop, 27, 48, 68, 160. 

Nartoon, John, carpenter, 156. 

Nash, Joseph, master, 48. 

Naval Hospital, mentioned, 92. 

Nayle, Boston, blacksmith, 191. 

Neal, Michael, master, 45, 67, 158. 

Negroes, mentioned, 112, 118, 125, 
126, 130, 131, 134, 136, 137, 139, 
141, 142, 174, 210. 

Neilson, William, driver, 112. 

Nelson, Nathan, laborer, 128. 

Neptune, sloop, armed, 26, 46, 66, 
158, 207, 208, 240. 

Nesbitt, Archibald, foreman, 154. 

Nesbitt, Samuel, master, 45, 67, 158. 

Nesbitt, WilUam, foreman, 155. 

Nevan, Patrick, laborer, 123. 

Newhauser, Conradt, driver, 174. 

New London, Conn., mentioned, 
208. 

Newstead, John, laborer, 123. 

Newton, Richard, clerk, 54. 

Newton, Richard, storekeeper, 109. 

Newtown, L. I., muster roll of the 
Commissary General's Depart- 
ment at, 136, 137; mentioned, 126, 
142. 

New York City, sketch of the Quar- 
termaster General's Department 
at, 14; cart hire at, 20, garrison 
at, 65; winter of 1779-1780 at, 77; 
wagon yard at, 96; return of num- 
ber of men, women and children of 
the British and Foreign regiments 
and civil departments, victualled 
at, 84-89; return of horses foraged 
at, 89-93; wood for fuel all cut 
down in, 101; cost of wood per 
cord, in, 1780, 101; amount of 
cords of wood used per year in, 
101 ; return of drivers, horses and 
wagons attached to the Hessian 
Staff and Corps at, 104-109; re- 
turn of tradesmen in the Quarter- 
master General's Department at, 
108-111; return of drivers, horses 
and wagons attached to several 



regiments at, 114, 115; return of 
drivers, horses, wagons, etc., in 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment at, 116, 117; muster roU of 
artificers, laborers, etc., employed 
in the Commissary General's De- 
partment at, 120-125; muster roll 
of artificers, laborers, etc., em- 
ployed in the Commissary Gen- 
eral's Department at Harlem 
Heights, 128-135; muster roll of 
artificers, laborers, etc., employed 
in the Barrack Master General's 
Department at, 140-142, 144- 
145; muster roll of artificers, saw- 
yers, etc., employed in the En- 
gineer's Department at, 146-148, 
152-154; general abstract of a 
muster of the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral's Department at, 168, 169; 
return of ship carpenters, etc., 
employed in the Quartermaster 
General's Ship Yard at, 176, 177; 
return of conductors, drivers, 
etc., in the Quartermaster Gen- 
eral's Department at the six-mile 
stone in, 178-181 ; return of wagon 
masters, conductors, etc., in the 
Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment at Fort Knyphausen in, 
182-189; mentioned, 8, 10, 47, 69, 
94, 95, 127, 151, 196. 

Nichol, Duncan, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Nicholls, John, butcher, 122. 

Nichols, John, blacksmith, 143. 

Niel, Bastian, blacksmith, 52. 

Nixon, James, assistant, 143, 144, 
146. 

Nixon, schooner, 68, 164. 

Nodine, Joseph, laborer, 129. 

Noe, Lewis, joiner, 177, 

Noe, Peter, caulker, 50, 177. 

Nolte, John, driver, 104. 

Norea, David, mate, 145. 

Normond, John, cartman, 141. 

North, brig, 26, 46, 66, 158. 

November, negro laborer, 142. 

Nowland, John, laborer, 56, 111. 

Nowland, Thomas, laborer, 56, 111. 

Nutten, Joseph, laborer, 124. 

Oaks, Robert, driver, 174. 
Oat, Michael, coUarmaker, 191. 
Oblinus, John, carpenter, 154. 
Ochart, John, driver, 118. 
Ochler, Casper, driver, 180. 
O'Dair, Dennis, driver, 118. 
Ofiicers, number of, victualled at 
New York, 87, 88. 



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Ogden, John, ship carpenter, 50, 

176. 
Ogilvie, Alexander, ship carpenter, 

50, 176. 
Okerman, Abraham, cartman, 140. 
Olerwein, George, driver, 106. 
Ohver, David, sawyer, 153. 
Oliver, Hampton, carpenter, 147. 
Oliver, Jonathan, foreman, 156. 
Ohver, William, laborer, 134. 
O'Neal, John, mason, 147. 
Orchard, John, laborer, 132. 
Ordnance Department, number of 

persons in the CivO Branch of the, 

victualled at New York, 86. 
Ordnance storekeeper, mentioned, 

90. 
Orestus, negro laborer, 122. 
Osthewm, Jost, driver, 106. 
Ostrum, Andrew, sawyer, 154. 
Ostrum, John, sawyer, 153. 
Ott, Jacob, laborer, 132. 
Ottendorff, Capt., mentioned, 90. 
Otto, Adam, driver, 106. 
Overdorf, David, driver, 112. 
Overseers, list of, 126; mentioned, 

210. 
Owen, WilUam, foreman carpenter, 

52, 182. 

Page, WiUiam, driver, 188. 

Paine, Capt., mentioned, 6. 

Pake, Isaac, laborer, 122. 

Palmer, William, assistant, 126. 

Palson, William, carpenter, 148. 

Pameter, Lewis, driver, 114. 

Pancha, Sancha, negro laborer. 

Pannel, Obadiah, mason, 147. 

Parent, Solomon, driver, 174. 

Park, James, laborer, 134. 

Parker, Capt., engineer, 205. 

Parker, Edward, batteauxman, 166. 

Parker, Ehjah, mate, 146. 

Parker, James, laborer, 123. 

Parker, Nathaniel, carpenter, 149. 

Parker, Peter, master, 65, 166. 

Parkin, Richard W., assistant, 128. 

Parks, John, driver, 184. 

Parlet, Charles, carpenter, 52. 

Parry, Samuel, master, 65, 166. 

Parry, Silas, master, 166. 

Parsell, Walter, laborer, 132. 

Parsells, John, carpenter, 156. 

Pasehall, James, blacksmith, 52. 

Paterson, Christopher, cartman, 
141. 

Paterson, David, cartman, 140. 

Paterson, Maj.-Gen. James, ap- 
pointed member of the Board, 3; 



attends meeting, 3, 4, 255; men- 
tioned, 28, 89. 

Paterson, John, master, 69, 164. 

Paterson, Peter, carpenter, 52, 110. 

Paterson, William, carpenter, 52, 
191. 

Patient, John, carpenter, 149. 

Patsey, ship, 24. 

Patten, Johnson, foreman, 157. 

Paul, Peter, driver, 170. 

Paulus Hook, N. J., muster roll of 
carpenters and sawyers employed 
in the Engineer's Department, 
150, 151. 

Paulus Hook, N. J., mentioned, 20, 
49, 69, 96, 120, 121, 125, 126, 151, 
162, 168, 207. 

Paumier, Peter, mentioned, 84. 

Paymaster General, mentioned, 90. 

Pajme, Daniel, batteauxman, 166. 

Pay Office, mentioned, 87. 

Payne, Robert, conductor, 55. 

Peebles, George, driver, 114. 

Peggy, brig, 26, 44, 66, 158, 238. 

Peggy, sloop, armed, 26, 46, 241. 

Peggy, sloop, 28, 64, 94, 145, 166, 
195. 

Pell, Gilbert, carpenter, 121. 

Pell, Israel, blacksmith, 51, 177. 

Penobscot, Me., garrison at, 100. 

Pensacola, Fla., mentioned, 93. 

Pepper, Jacob, driver, 178. 

Perfect, schooner, 25, 68, 162. 

Pero, Neen, driver, 145. 

Perro, James, carpenter, 153. 

Perry, Edward, seaman, 146. 

Perry, Samuel, master, 146. 

Perry, Silas, master, 65. 

Perr>', Silas, mate, 146. 

Pert, Roger, master, 48. 

Peter, brig, 24. 

Peter, negro laborer, 125, 137, 142. 

Peters, Thomas, driver, 151. 

Pfur, Conradt, driver, 108. 

Pheelon, Timothy, foreman, 155. 

Philadelphia, Pa., mentioned, 73, 
81, 98, 99, 100, 250. 

Philips, Capt. N., mentioned, 90. 

Philipse, Col., mentioned, 92. 

Phillips, Maj.-Gen. William, men- 
tioned, 28, 89, 169. 

Pickens, Andrew, carpenter, 148. 

Pierson, James, driver, 114. 

Pike, Joshua, sawyer, 156. 

Pitt, William, driver, 186. 

Pittel, Lt.-Col., mentioned, 32. 

Plantain, John, carpenter, 152. 

Plur, Isaac, driver, 142. 

Polly, schooner, armed, 24, 68, 162. 



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277 



Pompey, negro driver, 118. 

Poole, schooner, 27, 46, 66, 160. 

Portsmouth, N. H., garrison at, 100. 

Post, David, laborer, 129. 

Post, Dennis, laborer, 128. 

Post, Mills, cooper, 128. 

Potter, John, laborer, 56. 

Potts, Thomas, sawyer, 150. 

Potty, John, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Powdrill, Richard, master, 47, 67, 
160. 

Powell, James, carpenter, 149. 

Powell, Robert, negro laborer, 141. 

Powell, William, laborer, 125. 

Powl, John, laborer, 55. 

Price, Richard, driver, 182. 

Prickle, Nicholas, blacksmith, 53, 
110. 

Prince, John, driver, 112. 

Prince, negro laborer, 136, 139. 
Princes Bay, mentioned, 208. 
Pringle, Esburn, carpenter, 154. 
Pringle, Thomas, driver, 172. 
Pringle, Thomas, Jr., driver, 172. 
Prisoners, number of, victualled at 

New York, 87. 
Pritchett, Griffin, carpenter, 153. 
Pritchett, Samuel, carpenter, 150. 
Proctor, Nathaniel, master, 45, 67, 

158. 
Prophet, Daniel, batteauxman, 167. 
Provisions, bought in America per 
year for the British Army, 10; dif- 
ficulty of supplying, to the Army 
at Philadelphia, 250, 251. 
Provisions, cost of, 238-241. 
Provost, Martial, mentioned, 30, 90. 
Publickhover, Cornelius, batteaux- 
man, 166. 
Pursell, James, blacksmith, 191. 
Pye, Roger, master, 48. 

Quartermaster General's Depart- 
ment, comparative view of ex- 
penses of the, 6, 10, 12, 24, 25; 
sketch of the, 14, 70-79; list of 
vessels employed in the, 26, 27, 
44-49, 62, 63, 66-69, 158-163; re- 
turn of drivers, horses and wagons 
furnished by the, 28-37; men- 
tioned, 30, 45, 58, 76, 83, 93, 96, 
204, 205, 216, 220. 221, 223, 225, 
230, 231, 232, 233; 2.34, 235, 236, 
250,256; comparative view to pur- 
chase or hire vessels, horses and 
wagons for the, 38, 40, 42, 197- 
203, 248, 249; list of tradesmen 
employed in the, 50-57, 108-113; 
letter to the, 80; number of men, 



women and children in the, vic- 
tualled at New York, 86, 89; re- 
turn of the places of the, 96; re- 
turn of drivers, horses and wagons 
belonging to the, attached to the 
Hessian StafT and Corps in New 
York, 104-109; return of drivers, 
horses, wagons, etc., at New York, 
116, 117; return of batteauxmen 
in the, 166, 167; general abstract 
of a muster of the, at New York, 
168, 169; return of drivers, horses 
and wagons with the Corps to the 
southward, 170-175; return of 
ship carpenters, joiners, etc., em- 
ployed in the ship yard of the, 
176, 177; names of a working 
party of the 22d Regiment em- 
ployed in the, 176, 177; return of 
conductors, drivers, etc., in the, 
at the six-mile stone, 178-181; 
return of wagon masters, con- 
ductors, etc., employed in the, 
at Fort Knyphausen, 182-189; 
muster roll of conductors, etc., in 
the, at Brooklyn, N. Y., 190-194; 
return of batteaux, gun batteaux 
and scows belonging to the, 207, 
208; estimate of expenses in the 
establishment of a train of horses 
and wagons, etc., as employed in 
the, 210-215; memorandum rela- 
tive to the, 223-226; number of 
drivers, horses and wagons em- 
ployed in the, 226; Lord Cath- 
cart's account of the, 226-230; 
number of horses in the, that have 
died from 1779-1781, 247, 248; 
letter describing the assistance 
given by the, to the Commissary 
General, 250, 251; Observations 
of Maj.-Gen. Wm. Dalrymple 
upon an estimate of expenses at- 
tending a train of horses and 
wagons, 252-255. 

Quash, negro driver, 118. 

Quigley, James, laborer, 123. 

Quince, Abraham, negro laborer, 
141. 

Quinn, Daniel, driver, 116. 

Rachel, brig, 46, 66, 158. 
Rachel, schooner, 26. 
Rachel, sloop, 27, 48, 68, 160. 
Rambler, brig, 27, 48. 
Ramsey, John, laborer, 148. 
Randall, Thomas, carpenter, 150. 
Ranger, brig, 26, 44, 66, 158. 
Ranger, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 



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Ranger, sloop, 25, 27, 48, 68, 162. 

Rapalye, George, assistant, 142. 

Rappillee, Benjamin, overseer, 126. 

Rathburn, Joseph, wagoner, 144. 

Read, James, conductor, 55. 

Recovery, sloop, 24. 

Reeves, John, driver, 186. 

Refugees, number of, victualled at 
New York, 87; Inspector of, men- 
tioned, 92, 207, 208. 

Refugee, schooner, 68, 164. 

Rehres, Jacob, driver, 104. 

Rehter, George, driver, 186. 

Reid, John, foreman, 154. 

Reid, John, laborer, 123. 

Reid, John, Jr., laborer, 123. 

Reidesel, Baron, mentioned, 28. 

Reprisal, sloop, 27, 46, 66, 160. 

Retberg, Frederick, driver, 180. 

Reubens. Abraham, driver, 192. 

Rhibein, John, driver, 104. 

Rhob, James, laborer, 130. 

Rhode Island, mentioned, 8 ,10, 71, 
74, 98, 99, 226, 230; evacuation of, 
mentioned, 82, 99, 100. 

Rhodes, Callen, blacksmith, 191. 

Rhodes, Skelyan, blacksmith, 52. 

Richards, George, driver, 170. 

Richards, Thomas, cooper, 122. 

Richardsons, Dick, negro laborer, 
141. 

Ridding, Thomas, carpenter, 120. 

Ridley, James, master, 48. 

Rippeth, Wilham, driver, 174. 

Ritchie, Andrew, mason, 147. 

Ritchie, James, driver, 172. 

Ritchie, Thomas, mason, 157. 

Ritchie, WiUiam, driver, 192. 

Rix, Benjamin, Quartermaster, 
mentioned, 129, 136, 137, 138, 
142, 143, 144, 146, 157, 171, 190, 
191, 194, 195. 

Roach, Edward, carpenter, 157. 

Rob, John, driver, 151. 

Robbin, Rob, negro laborer, 142. 

Robert, Robert, Jr., ship carpenter, 
176. 

Roberts, Aenos, carpenter, 50. 

Roberts, Eneas, carpenter, 110, 190. 

Roberts, Joshua, conductor, 54. 
Roberts, Nathan, carpenter, 143. 

Robertson, Alexander, wagon mas- 
ter and overseer, 140. 
Robertson, Maj. Archibald, letters 
of, 70-74, 197-199, 232, 233, 234; 
mentioned, 196, 216, 217, 221, 
224, 232, 234 235, 237; letters to, 
204, 205, 206, 231, 232, 250, 251, 
Robertson, Gen. James, letters to, 



2, 3, 4, 5, 58, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 70- 
79, 81-83, 88, 94, 97, 158, 168, 
169, 197-199, 208, 209, 220-223, 
257; appointed president of the 
Board, 3; attends meetings, 3, 4, 
58, 60, 70, 80, 104, 105, 157, 194, 

195, 196, 255, letters of, 4, 258; 
mentioned, 6, 28, 80, 89, 104, 162, 

196, 206, 224, 231, 232, 234. 235, 
256, 257, 258. 

Robertson, William, 177. 
Robinson, Col. Beverly, mentioned, 

32. 
Robinson, H., mentioned, 6. 
Robinson, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 
Robinson, John, mate, 145. 
Robinson, Tom, negro laborer, 141. 
Robinson, William, carpenter, 147. 
Robinson, William, laborer, 154. 
Rogers, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 
Ronalds, Henry, wagoner, 144. 
Roop, Isaac, blacksmith, 52, 191. 
Rose, Anthony, driver, 184. 
Rose, Edward, driver, 170. 
Rosgrove, Thomas, seaman, 145. 
Ross, Anthony, driver, 184. 
Ross, David, laborer, 141. 
Ross, Edward, master, 45, 67, 158. 
Ross, George, laborer, 124. 
Ross, Stewart, master, 47, 67, 158. 
Rote, James, butcher, 122. 
Rowden, Richard, carpenter, 140. 
Rowett, Thomas, laborer, 124. 
Rudder, Michael, carpenter, 147. 
Rudkin, WiUiam, driver, 172. 
Rudolph, Hans C., driver, 186. 
Rum, amount of, bought in i^merica 

per year for the British Army, 10 ; 

the most expense to the army, 81, 

82, 83. 
Rush, Martin, carpenter, 153. 
Russell, James, cockswain, 166. 
Russell, John, laborer, 123. 
Russell, Joseph, driver, 118. 
Ruttan, Daniel, carpenter, 153. 
Ruttan, John, carpenter, 153. 
Ryerson, John, driver, 192. 

St. Andrews, schooner, 29, 64, 94, 

145, 164, 195. 
St. John's Island, garrison at, 100. 
Sailmakei's, mentioned, 238, 239, 

240, 241. 
Saily, John, master, 69, 164. 
Sally, sloop, 26, 44, 46, 66, 68, 158, 

160, 162. 
Salmon, Charles, driver, 172. 
Salt, Maurice, master carpenter, 50, 

176. 



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279 



Sam, negro laborer, 134. 
Samms, Toby, laborer, 194. 
Sampson, negro laborer, 123. 
Sampson, William, driver, 118. 
Sampson, William, laborer, 56. 
Sandy Hook, N. Y., mentioned, 112, 

115, 170. 
Saunders, John, blacksmith, 51, 177. 
Saunders, John, laborer, 148. 
Saur, Jacob, driver, 104. 
Saur, John, driver, 104. 
Saur, Peter, driver, 108. 
Savage, Capt. Henry, mentioned, 

10, 77. 
Savage, Maj., mentioned, 204, 224. 
Savage, Thomas, driver, 172. 
Savage, Wanney, driver, 116. 
Savannah, Ga., garrison, at, 100. 
Sawyers, mentioned, 14, 42, 210; 

list of, 50, 51, 149, 150, 153, 154, 

156, 157, 177. 
Saxton, Joseph, carpenter, 151. 
Scadden, Thomas, sawyer, 153. 
Schabacker, Adam, driver, 108. 
Schade, Adam, driver, 178. 
Schebrumsit, George, driver, 106. 
Schenk, Conradt, driver, 186. 
Schmidt, Christoph, driver, 106. 
Schneider, George, driveF, 106. 
Schnider, John, driver, 184. 
Schooner, cost of materials to fit out 

a, 242-247. 
Scoffil, Isaac, carpenter, 148. 
Scott, Nathaniel, carpenter, 156. 
Scott, Princus, negro laborer, 142. 
Scott, Robert, laborer, 123, 
Scott, Robert, 177. 
Schrader, Conradt, driver, 104. 
Schreiner, Johannis, driver, 106. 
Scudder, Jesse, driver, 170. 
Scully, Jack, negro laborer, 141. 
Seaburn, Frederick, blacksmith, 53, 

110. 
Seaman, Henry, carpenter, 52. 
Seaman, John, carpenter, 182. 
Seaman, wages of, 238-241. 
Secretary's Office, mentioned, 87. 
Segar, Peter, driver, 186. 
Shaade, Henry, driver, 174. 
ShaiTer, Johannes, driver, 178. 
Shaffer, Martin, harnessmaker, 53. 
Shannon, John, carpenter, 151. 
Shannon, Roger, master, 47, 67, 

160. 
Sharp, Henry, carpenter, 156. 
Shaw, John, laborer, 56. 
Shearman, Adrian, carpenter, 154. 
Sheldon, Joseph, carpenter, 154. 
Shelhase, Martin, driver, 174. 



Shepherd, PhiHp, blacksmith, 53, 
182. 

Shepherd, William, assistant, 138, 
139. 

Sheriff, Col. Charles, mentioned, 6, 
8, 74, 75, 227. _ 

Sherrington, William, driver, 172. 

Shewend, Henry, driver, 174. 

Shields, John, driver, 144. 

Shields, WiUiam, carpenter, 149. 

Shilling, John, driver, 186. 

Shintnetzs, Adam, driver, 174. 

Ship carpenters, hat of, 50, 176; men- 
tioned, 238, 239, 240, 241. 

Ship Chandlers, mentioned, 238, 
239, 240, 241. 

Ship Yard, establishment of, 44; 
mentioned, 36, 76. 

Sholts, Frederick, laborer, 122. 

Shonewalf, Nicholas, driver, 174. 

Shriver, George, conductor, 55. 

Shultz, George, driver, 106. 

Shultz, Henry, driver, 106. 

Sibiston, William, laborer, 129. 

Siebalt, Dederick, driver, 106. 

Simmons, John, carpenter, 154. 

Simon, Isaac, laborer, 57. 

Simpson, Alexander, carpenter, 156. 

Simpson, William, foreman, 152. 

Sinclair, Alexander, blacksmith, 1 10. 

Sipp, Jordan, blacksmith, 111. 

Sir James Wallace, sloop, 27, 46, 66, 
160, 240. 

Sizland, Solomon, driver, 118. 

Skelton, Thomas, letter of, 158, 159; 
mentioned, 163, 167. 

Skillman, Caesar, driver, 116. 

Skinner, Benjamin, blacksmith, 52. 

Skinner, Brig.-Gen. Cortlandt, men- 
tioned, 30, 90, 112. 

Skinner, Mr., surveyor, 188. 

Skinnick, Lawrence, driver, 144. 

Slade, Thomas, laborer, 129. 

Slaughter, Dempsey, carpenter, 191. 

Slaughter, Dennis, carpenter, 52. 

Slaytor, John, driver, 192. 

SUdell, Michael, laborer, 123. 

Sloop, cost of materials to fit out a, 
242-247. 

Smallbridge, Edward, laborer, 124. 

Smedley, WilUam, driver, 172. 

Smith, Abraham, driver, 118. 

Smith, Abraham, laborer, 56. 

Smith, Adam, carpenter, 149. 

Smith, Alexander, driver, 114. 

Smith, Andrew, conductor, 55. 

Smith, David, foreman, 147. 

Smith, Ebenezer, carpenter, 140. 

Smith, Fower, seaman, 146. 



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INDEX 



Smith, George, carpenter, 140. 

Smith, Hugh, Master, 47, 67, 158. 

Smith, James, laborer, 143. 

Smith, John, laborer, 55, 56. 

Smith, John, master, 69. 

Smith, John, secretary to Sir Henry 
Clinton, 5. 

Smith, Joseph, laborer, 56. 

Smith, Newcomb, carpenter, 153. 

Smith, Peter, laborer, 134, 138. 

Smith, Thomas, master, 47, 67, 158. 

Smith, Thomas, H., cooper, 126. 

Smith, Thomas W., cooper, 126. 

Smith, William, laborer, 124. 

Smith, William, master, 47, 67, 160. 

Smith, William, negro laborer, 142. 

Smy, Richard, cooper, 121. 

Sneedan, Samuel, ship carpenter, 50. 

Sneedan, William, ship carpenter, 
50, 176. 

Snyder, William, sawyer, 51, 177. 

Sobrisko, Samuel, driver, 184. 

Somerset, Jacob, negro laborer, 141. 

Sommers, Tom, negro laborer, 141. 

Soule, John, laborer, 132. 

Soules, Daniel, carpenter, 152. 

Soules, George, carpenter, 152. 

South Carolina, cost of provisions 
for use of the British Army in, 84; 
mentioned, 10. 

Spanish River, mentioned, 98. 

Sparrington, Joseph, laborer, 132. 

Spaun, George, driver, 106. 

Speedwell, ship, 25, 68, 162. 

Speekman, William, carpenter, 148. 

Spitfire, ship, 27, 48. 

Splato, negro laborer, 139. 

Sproule, Capt., assistant engineer, 
205. 

Sprout, Thomas, carpenter, 150. 

Sprowles, John, driver, 112. 

Stackhouse, Charles, wagoner, 144. 

Stagg, Michael, laborer, 124. 

Stamper, John, driver, 116. 

Stanton, Giles, master, 65, 166. 

Stanton, Jack, laborer, 134. 

Stanton, John, master, 65, 146, 164. 

Stanton, Lethan, laborer, 141. 

Stark, Peter, master, 48. 

Staten Island, N. Y., vessels hired 
at, 15; mentioned, 20, 71, 81, 97, 
127, 135, 137, 142, 151, 160, 
168; flag staff at, mentioned, 96; 
cost of wood at, 102; return of 
tradesmen in the Quartermaster 
General's Department at, 110- 
113; list of carpenters at, 125; post 
at, 47; muster roll of artificers, saw- 
yers, etc., employed in the En- 



gineer's Department at, 148-150; 
mentioned, 207, 208, 228. 

States, Morris Dyckman, clerk, 54. 

Stayman, Jacob, cartman, 141. 

Steadman, Dover, wagoner, 144. 

Steel, Benjamin, laborer, 141. 

Steenburg, John, carpenter, 148. 

Steir, Maj., mentioned, 207. 

Stennix, John, carpenter, 191. 

Sterns, Banjamin, conductor, 55, 
108. 

Stepney, William, laborer, 56, 111. 

Stewart, A., Secretary to the Board 
of General Officers," 57, 58, 59, 61, 
62, SO. 

Stewart, Capt., mentioned, 112, 115. 

Stewart, George, Assistant Deputy 
Quartermaster General, men- 
tioned, 189. 

Stewart, James, mason, 157. 

Stewart, John, laborer, 124. 

Stewart, John, mason, 157. 

Stewart, John, wagon master, 54. 

Stewart, Peter, laborer, 141. 

Stiefell, Lorentz, driver, 104. 

Stigby, Stephen, driver, 112. 

Stillwell, John, conductor, 55. 

Stilwell, Daniel, cooper, 122. 

Stirling, Gen. Thomas, mentioned, 
28, 89. 

Stites, William, sawyer, 149. 

Stivers, James, negro laborer, 142. 

Stocomb, William, carpenter, 148. 

Stokes, Robert, laborer, 122. 

Stoney, Jonathan, driver, 170. 

Stoney, Jonathan, laborer, 143. 

Storekeepers, list of, 54, 109; men- 
tioned, 16, 73, 199, 210. 

Stratford, Thomas, laborer, 124. 

Stringham, William, carpenter, 154. 

Stuart, John, wagon master, 182. 

Stump, John, conductor, 55, 190. 

Sukl, Christopher, driver, 188. 

SulUvan, Dennis, driver, 182. 

Sullivan, Roger, carpenter, 152. 

Sumberger, John, driver, 106. 

Suramimin, Jacob, driver, 106. 

Summons, Frank, laborer, 56. 

Sunderland, John, driver, 170. 

Sunderland, WiUiam, laborer, 55. 

Supio, negro laborer, 123. 

Supplies and Fuel, letter concern- 
ing, 97-103. 

Surveyors, mentioned, 90. 

Sutherland, Daniel, sawyer, 153. 

Sutherland, O'Sulfivan, assistant, 
143. 

Sutherland, William, batteauxman, 
166. 



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281 



Susannah, sloop, 64, 94, 166, 195. 
Swallow, schooner, 27, 48. 
Swan, sloop, 24, 68, 162. 
Sweed, John, laborer, 132. 
Sweeney, Edmund, laborer, 124. 
Sweethen, John, laborer, 136. 
Swift, ship, 48. 
Swiney, Charles, driver, ISO. 
Sypher, William, carpenter, 148. 

Tailer, Gillam, assistant, 126. 

Tarbet, Peter, negro laborer, 142. 

Tausher, John, driver, 174. 

Taylor, Charles, carpenter, 150. 

Taylor, Charles, cartman, 141. 

Taylor, James, master, 48. 

Taylor, John, carpenter, 156. 

Taylor, John, laborer, 132. 

Taylor, Martin, master, 49. 

Taylor, Mr., surveyor, 188. 

Ternyea, Christopher, laborer, 124. 

Theodosia, sloop, 28. 

Thetis, transport, 208. 

Thomas, Alexander, sawyer, 154. 

Thomas, Christopher, driver, 178. 

Thomas, Harry, laborer, 148. 

Thomas, John, laborer, 57. 

Thomas, Joseph, carpenter, 50, 190. 

Thomas, Samuel, carpenter, 140. 

Thomas, sloop, 25, 68, 162. 

Thompson, Archibald, laborer, 124. 

Thompson, Edward, driver, 184. 

Thompson, Joseph, driver, 120. 

Thompson, Tom, negro laborer, 
142. 

Thorn, Joseph, mason, 125. 

Thome, Thomas, carpenter, 150. 

Three Friends, brig, 28 ,64, 94, 146, 
164, 195. 

Three Sisters, sloop, 164. 

Thurzton, Mr., mentioned, 92. 

Tiebout, Anthony, laborer, 148. 

Till, Jacob, smith, 148. 

Tither, Edward, driver, 172. 

Tobin, Thomas, laborer, 134. 

Tom, negro laborer, 134. 

Tomson, John, laborer, 138. 

Toney, negro laborer, 123, 139. 

Tonkin, Capt. Thomas; list of ves- 
sels under the inspection of, 48, 
49, 62, 63; letter to, 60; letter 
from, 61-63. 

Top, Ehas, carpenter, 150. 

Tournay, John, butcher, 125. 

Towers, John, mason, 147. 

Towler, Cato, negro laborer, 141. 

Townshend, Gregory, Asst. Com. 
Gen., 125, 131. 

Tradell, Abraham, storekeeper, 54. 



Trainer, Daniel, seaman, 146. 

Trenton, N. J., mentioned, 72. 

Trouden, Andrew, batteauxman, 
166. 

TrumbuU, Robert, carpenter, 52. 

Trusler, Lambert, driver, 192. 

Tucker, George, carpenter, 155. 

Tucker, George, driver, 174. 

Turnbull, Col. George, ordered to 
make a muster roll of all vessels 
and men in the military depart- 
ment, 79; mentioned, 92. 

Turnbull, Robert, carpenter, 182. 

Turnbull, WiUiam, driver, 114. 

Turner, John, carpenter, 150. 

Turner, John C, wagoner, 144. 

Twigg, Thomas, driver, 186. 

Tybout, Albert, cartman, 140. 

Tyers, Benjamin, conductor, 143. 

Tyng, William, Dep. Com. of For- 
age, 137. 

Tyrrell, John, master, 164. 

Umback, Monitz, driver, 178. 
Underwood, John, wagoner, 144. 
Ure, John, harnessmaker, 53. 
Ursprung, Gasper, driver, 108. 

Vallancey, Capt., mentioned, 248. 

Valleaw, Faulkner, carpenter, 156. 

Van Buskirk, Lawrence, carpenter, 
156. 

Van Clack, Ahasuerus, carpenter, 
156. 

Van Clack, Levi, carpenter, 156. 

Van Clack, Simon, carpenter, 156. 

Vandeford, Peter, carpenter, 152. 

Van Gesen, Samuel, carpenter, 125. 

Van Hook, Jacob, laborer, 123. 

Van Horn, Mandit, cartman, 140. 

Van Home, Cornelius, laborer, 122. 

Van Iderstine, John, carpenter, 125. 

Van Laun, Peter, laborer, 57. 

Van Ryper, Samuel, laborer, 57. 

Van Saun, Peter, laborer, 57. 

Van Saun, Wanney, driver, 116. 

Van Sucklin, Michael, blacksmith, 
53. 

Van Sucklin, Minas, blacksmith, 
191. 

Van Voorst, Cornelius, 160. 

Van Voorst, Cornelius, master, 49, 
69. 

Van Winkel, Benjamin, laborer, 124. 

Varden, Jacob, smith, 147. 

Varden, Wilham, smith, 147. 

Vessels, comparative view to pur- 
chase or hire, in the Quartermas- 
ter General's Department, 201- 



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203; portage bills and charges of, 

238-241; cost of materials for 

fitting out, 242-247. 
Vigilant, ship, 29. 
Vint, George, batteauxman, 167. 
Virginia, vessel at, 45; mentioned, 

47, 49. 
Voit, Col. Aug. v., mentioned, 168. 
Vonck, Peter, carpenter, 154. 
Von Donk, Augustine, laborer, 131. 

Wagon Master, mentioned, 16, 36, 

42, 54, 199, 210. 
Wagons, cost of repairs to, 214. 
Wainwright, John, cartman, 140. 
Wakefall, George, laborer, 57. 
Walch, Patrick, laborer, 125. 
Walden, Jacob, laborer, 126. 
Waldron, Isaac, carpenter, 153, 
Waldron, William, cartman, 141. 
Waleing, Edward, laborer, 123. 
Walker, John, carpenter, 156. 
Wallabout, guard at, 47. 
Wallace, Peter, blacksmith, 53. 
Wallace, William, master, 65, 164. 
WaUis, Provo, ordered to make a 

muster of all vessels and men in 

the military departments, 79. 
WaUop, Capt. Bennet, mentioned, 

90. 
Walsh, James, carpenter, 147. 
Walstine, Samuel, carpenter, 152. 
Ward, George, driver, 112. 
Ward, Major, mentioned, 103. 
Ward, W., master, 65, 164. 
Warne, Samuel, carpenter, 155. 
Warner, John, sawyer, 153. 
Warring, Ishmael, driver, 192. 
Warwick, Cuflfie, negro laborer, 142. 
Waters, Anthony, driver, 184. 
Waters, Laban, carpenter, 52. 
Waters, Levens, carpenter, 191. 
Waterson, Peter, batteauxman, 167. 
Watkins, John, laborer, 55. 
Watkins, Joseph, foreman, 152. 
Watner, Reuben, negro laborer, 142. 
Watson, Caesar, laborer, 134. 
Watson, James, master, 48. 
Watson, Joshua, carpenter, 151. 
Way, Daniel, laborer, 126. 
Weakley, Stephen, driver, 144. 
Weatherspoon, William, master, 47, 

67, 158. 
Webb, Wilham, cartman, 141. 
Weber, Conradt, driver, 174. 
Webster, John, sawyer, 150. 
Weedright, Justice, carpenter, 182. 
Week, John, driver, 188. 
Weeks, Isaac, carpenter, 153. 



Weir, Daniel, Commissary General, 
mentioned, 6, 8, 70, 88; letter to, 
58, 234; letters of, 81-83, 88, 250, 
251. 

Weir, George, blacksmith, 53. 

Welch, James, Acting Commissary 
of Muster, 109, 111, 115, 117, 
121, 127, 137, 142, 151, 171, 179. 

Welchford, Edward, master, 45, 67, 
158. 

Wenman, Richard, carpenter, 121. 

Werdright, Justice, carpenter, 52. 

Wesdekind, James, driver, 180. 

West, George, clerk, 54, 109. 

West, James, stacker, 132. 

Whart, Christopher, laborer, 130. 

Wheaten, John, joiner, 51. 

Wheelrights, mentioned, 14, 42, 50, 
210. 

White, David, conductor, 55. 

White, Duncan, master, 47, 67, 160. 

White, Henry, appointed member 
of the Board, 3; attends meeting, 
3, 4, 58, 60, 70, 80, 104, 105, 196. 

White, James, laborer, 132. 

White Plains, N. Y., mentioned, 71. 

White, WUliam, cooper, 126. 

White, William, master, 69, 162. 

Wiedeman, Nicholas, driver, 184. 

Wier, Archibald, batteauxman, 167. 

Wier, George, blacksmith, 182. 

Wierning, Johannis, driver, 106. 

Wieurgan, Patrick, laborer, 128. 

Wiler, Conrad, foreman, 151. 

Wiler, Michael, driver, 151. 

Wilkerson, George, carpenter, 52, 
191. 

Wilkins, William, carpenter, 154. 

Wilkinson, Jacob, laborer, 126. 

Wilkinson, Richard, carpenter, 152. 

Wilkinson, Robert, foreman, 150. 

Willett, Thomas, conductor, 54. 

William, negro laborer, 130, 142. 

William, schooner, 29, 64, 68, 94, 
145, 164, 195. 

WiUiams, Abraham, cartman, 140. 

Williams, Daniel, driver, 145. 

Williams, Henry, laborer, 141. 

WiUiams, Jack, negro laborer, 142. 

Williams, Joe, negro laborer, 142. 

Williams, John, cartman, 140. 

Williams, John, carpenter, 152, 154. 

WiUiams, John, Jr., cartman, 140. 

WiUiams, Oliver, sawyer, 150. 

WiUiams, Samuel, cartman, 140. 

Williams, Thomas, laborer, 132. 

WiUis, John, wagoner, 144. 

Wilson, John 1st, carpenter, 50. 

Wilson, John, 2nd, carpenter, 51. 



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Wilson, John, carpenter, 190. 
Wilson, John, master, 69, 162. 
Wilson, Pompey, driver, 112. 
Wilson, Robert, carpenter, 155. 
Wilson, Samuel, blacksmith, 53. 
Wilson, WiUiam, batteauxman, 167. 
Wine, James, laborer, 138. 
Wingfall, George, driver, 118. 
Wintered, William, driver, 186. 
Wiser, Frederick, carpenter, 149. 
Wisher, James, laborer, 132. 
With, Jacob, driver, 180. 
Wood, Caesar, laborer, 143. 
Woolsey, Glasco, laborer, 56. 
Worster, Wilham, carpenter, 150. 
Wright, Adam, driver, 192. 
Wright, Charles, carpenter, 149. 
Wright, John, batteauxman, 167. 
Wright, Robert, cartman, 140. 
Wurmb, Maj. Gen. Frederick W., 

mentioned, 32, 89, 107. 
Wurschmidt, George, driver, 178. 



Wylie, John, cartman, 140. 
Wynants, Vincent, master, 49. 
Wynants, Winant, master, 69, 160. 

Yarson, Peter, driver, 188. 
Yates, John, assistant, 138, 139. 
Yellow Hook, L. I., Barrack Master 

General's Department at., 143; 

mentioned, 126, 208. 
Yonge, WiUiam, master, 45, 67, 158. 
York, negro driver, 118. 
York, schooner, 64, 94, 146, 166, 195. 
Young, Isaac, cartman, 141. 
Young, Peter, blacksmith, 53, 110. 
Young, Philip, cooper, 130. 
Young, Robert, driver, 174. 
Young, William, master, 45, 67, 158. 

Zell, Johannes, driver, 178. 
Zeugh, Melchier, driver, 106. 
Zohrbach, Caspur, driver, 108. 



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